18And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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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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