4But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
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Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here we find concerning Jehoshaphat, I. What a wise man he was. As soon as he came to the crown he strengthened himself against Israel , 2 Chron. 17:1. Ahab, an active warlike prince, had now been three years upon the throne of Israel, the vigour of his beginning falling in with the decay of Asa’s conclusion. It is probable that the kingdom of Israel had, of late, got ground of the kingdom of Juda…
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