Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
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Interpretation
The book of the law is read before the king. Those best honour their Bibles, who study them; daily feed on that bread, and walk by that light.
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This thought runs through 2 Kings 22:15-19.