Note 9 — Chapter IX
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The reader will note, with interest and profit, the contrast between the acting of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles xxx, and the acting of Jeroboam in 1 Kings xii. 32. The former availed himself of the provisions of divine grace; the latter followed his own device. The second month was permitted of God; the eighth month was invented by man. Divine provisions meeting man’s need, and human inventions opposing God’s Word, are totally different things.