7And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
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So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. …
And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)We have here a general account of the reign of Hezekiah. It appears, by comparing his age with his father’s, that he was born when his father was about eleven or twelve years old, divine Providence so ordering that he might be of full age, and fit for business, when the measure of his father’s iniquity should be full. Here is, I. His great piety, which was the more wonderful because his father was…
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