Bible Commentaries

2 Chronicles 31:21

The text speaks of work. Only adopt Hezekiah's plan, and "in every work that you begin do it with all your heart," and you may prosper as well as he.

I. We learn from Hezekiah a lesson of concentration of energy. He did not begin half a dozen things at once, and drivel away his energy upon them; he did not commence one thing till he had finished another.

II. Method and punctuality, too, seem to be indirectly hinted at in the text; and they are almost indispensable to prosperity.

III. But the great lesson we learn from the text is the value of thoroughness in doing whatever we undertake with our whole heart, and doing it well. Do nothing as if it were trifling; if it be so, it is unworthy of you.

IV. Emulate Hezekiah's ardent and consistent piety. He stands in the front rank among the saints of Scripture as a man of prayer. Every difficulty and trouble he took straight to God, and spread it out before Him.

J. Thain Davidson, Talks with Young Men, p. 189

References: 2 Chronicles 31:1.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. v., No. 238. 2 Chronicles 31:21.—F. W. Farrar, Silence and the Voices of God, p. 135; Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. viii., No. 433; Ibid., Evening by Evening, p. 75; Preacher's Monthly, vol. iv., p. 49. 2 Chronicles 32:24-26.—H. Thompson, Concionalia: Outlines for Parochial Use, 2nd series, p. 41. 2 Chronicles 32:25.—S. Baring-Gould, One Hundred Sermon Sketches, p. 103. 2 Chronicles 32:28.—H. Thompson, Concionalia, 2nd series, p. 356. 2 Chronicles 32:30.—Christian World Pulpit, vol. iv., p. 203. 2 Chronicles 32:31.—Spurgeon, Evening by Evening, p. 182. 32—Expositor, 2nd series, vol. ii., p. 437. 2 Chronicles 33:11.—Preacher's Monthly, vol. iv., p. 55; Expositor, 2nd series, vol. iv., pp. 450, 452. 2 Chronicles 33:12.—J. Keble, Sermons for Christian Year: Lent to Passiontide, p. 270.