“For the Lord saw the bitter suffering of everyone in Israel, and that there was no on in Israel, slave or free, to help them…He used Jeroboam II to help them.”
The Lord is indeed very merciful. The kings of Israel—to a man—turned from the Lord, and took the people of Israel with them. And yet, for all this, the Lord was mindful of their bitter suffering, and had compassion on them.
