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11And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
2 Kings 22:11 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 11-20)We hear no more of the repairing of the temple: no doubt that good work went on well; but the book of the law that was found in it occupies us now, and well it may. It is not laid up in the king’s cabinet as a piece of antiquity, a rarity to be admired, but it is read before the king. Those put the truest honour upon their Bibles that study them and converse with them daily, feed on that bread and...
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