2 Chronicles 26:17-18 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:… The great temptation of some natures is to try to do the very things for which they are least qualified. There is a marvellous irony in human genius in this matter. It would seem to be an inscrutable mystery that men will persist in attempting to do the thing which they cannot do, and which they were obviously never meant to do. Whenever a man is out of place he is guilty of wasting strength. A man can only work well within his own limit. No man should strain himself at his labour, be he poet, or musician, or divine, be he prophet or merchantman; he should keep easily within the circle he was appointed to occupy, for all stretching is weakening, all effort that is above the line of nature tends to destruction, both to the worker and of the influence which he ought to exert. Know your own place, and keep it. (J. Parker, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:WEB: Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men: |
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