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In the one and twentieth year of the reign of Jehoash, Jehoahaz,
the son of Jehu, took the government of the Israelites in Samaria, and
held it seventeen years. He did not [properly] imitate his father, but
was guilty of as wicked practices as hose that first had God in contempt:
but the king of Syria brought him low, and by an expedition against him
did so greatly reduce his forces, that there remained no more of so great
an army than ten thousand armed men, and fifty horsemen. He also took away
from him his great cities, and many of them also, and destroyed his army.
And these were the things that the people of Israel suffered, according
to the prophecy of Elisha, when he foretold that Hazael should kill his
master, and reign over the Syrians and Damcenes. But when Jehoahaz was
under such unavoidable miseries, he had recourse to prayer and supplication
to God, and besought him to deliver him out of the hands of Hazael, and
not overlook him, and give him up into his hands. Accordingly God accepted
of his repentance instead of virtue; and being desirous rather to admonish
those that might repent, and not to determine that they should be utterly
destroyed, he granted him deliverance from war and dangers. So the country
having obtained peace, returned again to its former condition, and flourished
as before.
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