10And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
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And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. …
Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)This account of Joash’s good beginnings we had as it stands here 2 Kgs. 12:1-21, though the latter part of this chapter, concerning his apostasy, we had little of there. What is good in men we should take all occasions to speak of and often repeat it; what is evil we should make mention of but sparingly, and no more than is needful. We shall here only observe, 1. That it is a happy thing for young…
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