27
They dedicated some of the plunder won in battles to repair the LORD’s house.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 27. Wars. Hebrew “out of the spoils won in battles, which they had set apart as sacred, to support the house,” and so forth Septuagint “that the building of the house of the Lord might not be retarded.” Bible.—Yet these spoils remained untouched by Solomon, who imitated this piety, as others did. 3 Kennicott. 14:26. The Romans adored Jupiter Prædator, as he was styled, because part of the plunder was allotted to him. Serv. in Æn. iii.
Irruimus ferro et Divos ipsumque vocamus
In prædam partemque Jovem.
People vied with each other in the munificence of their presents. Cæsar, Bel. Gall. vi. Calmet.
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