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But the king kept his part of the solemn engagement. However difficult it might be, he
removed "the Queen-mother" from her exalted position, and thus showed an example
of sincerity and earnestness in his own household. And, in token of his consecration to
Jehovah, he brought into His House alike those war-spoils which his father had, after
the victory over Jeroboam, set apart as the portion for God, and what he himself now
consecrated from the spoil taken in the war with Egypt. These measures were followed
by a period of happy rest for the land - even to the twenty-fifth^261 year of King Asa's
reign.
(^)