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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Kings 15:3 - 15:3
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his heart was not perfect with the Lord ... , as the heart of David his father - (Compare 1Ki 11:4; 1Ki 14:22). He was not positively bad at first, for it appears that he had done something to restore the pillaged treasures of the temple (1Ki 15:15). This phrase contains a comparative reference to David’s heart. His doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord (1Ki 15:5) is frequently used in speaking of the kings of Judah, and means only that they did or did not do that which, in the general course and tendency of their government, was acceptable to God. It furnishes no evidence as to the lawfulness or piety of one specific act.