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2 Chronicles 10:4 open_in_new
Grievous — It is probable, when Solomon had declined from God, that God left him to himself to act thus impolitically.
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2 Chronicles 10:7 open_in_new
If thou be kind, &c. — Moderate counsels are generally best. Gentleness will do what violence will not do. Good words cost nothing but a little self — denial, and yet they purchase great things.
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2 Chronicles 10:16 open_in_new
See to thine own house — When public affairs are in a ferment, violent proceedings do but make ill worse. Many have been driven to the mischief they did not intend, by being too severely dealt with.