2 Kings 22:11
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.
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Gill's Exposition
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law,.... From whence it appears that he had never wrote out a copy of it, as the kings of Israel were ordered to do, when they…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
He rent his clothes - Partly grief and horror, like Reuben Gen 37:29 and Job Job 1:20, partly in repentance, like Ahab 1Ki 21:27.
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…
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