how I have walked before thee] How I have carried my selfe carefully and faithfully, as in thy sight, Genesis 5:22. & Genesis 6:9. and 17. 1. Psalms 16:8. & Psalms 119:168. 1 King. 15. 5, 14. 2 Chron. 25. 2. in thy sight] Heb. eyes. Jeremiah 26:14. wept sore] Heb. with great weeping. 2 Samuel 13:36. As being much troubled; partly that he should die so soon after deliverance from so great a calamitie, as deemed unworthy to enjoy the blessed fruit of it, 2 King. 7. 2, 19, 20. partly foreseeing the danger, likely to befall Church and State, should he then be taken away, having as yet no issue; for his sonne Manasseh was not yet born. See vers. 5. 18. 2 Kings 21:1.