7And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
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Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-15)We have here an account of two things concerning Uzziah:— I. His piety. In this he was not very eminent or zealous; yet he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord . He kept up the pure worship of the true God as his father did, and was better than his father, inasmuch as we have no reason to think he ever worshipped idols as his father did, no, not in his latter days, when his heart was…
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