8And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
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And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. …
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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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