16And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
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For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him. …
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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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