15But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
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And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-26)We have here a sad account of the degeneracy and apostasy of Joash. God had done great things for him; he had done something for God; but now he proved ungrateful to his God and false to the engagements he had laid himself under to him. How has the gold become dim, and the most fine gold changed ! Here we find, I. The occasions of his apostasy. When he did that which was right it was not with a pe…
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