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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
2 Kings 12:1–3, “In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba. And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.”
Both Jehu and Jehoash had good starts to their reigns. Jehu eliminated all the remnants of Ahab’s false religion and returned to the sins of Jeroboam. Jehoash sought to follow the Lord under the able advise of his the priest Jehoiada but neither wholeheartedly follow the Lord. (compare 1 Kings 15:3, “And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.”) Jehoash still allowed the remains of the Canaanite religions to survive in the Land while Jehu didn’t make any effort to remove Jeroboam’s false religion.
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