Thus he speaks, partly though he had great armies to be drawn together in due time upon great occasions, 2 Chronicles 17:14, &c.; yet he seems to have been surprised by these men before his forces were in readiness to oppose them; and partly because he well knew, and piously and wisely considered, that no human forces, though numerous and valiant, were able to defend him without God's assistance, which he feared by his sins he had forfeited, and then he had really been as weak as water. Our eyes are upon thee, looking to thee only for relief and succour.

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