19And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. …
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-28)This whole paragraph we had, just as it is here related, 2 Kgs. 22:8-20, and have nothing to add here to what was there observed. But, 1. We may hence take occasion to bless God that we have plenty of Bibles, and that they are, or may be, in all hands,—that the book of the law and gospel is not lost, is not scarce,—that, in this sense, the word of the Lord is not precious . Bibles are jewels, but,…
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