3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart. …
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD. …
And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them. …
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Amaziah, the son and successor of Joash, is the king whom here we have an account of. Let us take a view of him, I. In the temple; and there he acted, in some measure, well, like Joash, but not like David, 2 Kgs. 14:3. He began well, but did not persevere: He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , kept up his attendance on God’s altars and his attention to God’s word, yet not like Dav…
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