“And 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.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
14:1-7 Amaziah began well, but did not go on so. It is not enough to do that which our pious predecessors did, merely to keep up the common usage, but we must do it as they did, from the same principle of faith and devotion, and with the same sincerity and resolution.
“And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.”
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