OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 9:44

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Azel had six sons, whose names are Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.

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Verse 44. These. All is omitted, though it is found Calmet. 8:38, and in MS. ii. Kennicott.—These remarks, which may appear to some minute, shew that all Hebrew MSS. are not absolutely alike, as some once pretended; and that the Hebrew Bible is not printed from the best copies. Bible.—“The sacred volume in Hebrew has, therefore, been published with such carelessness, as no other printed copy with which I am acquainted.” Houbigant, prol. p. 2.—Yet this is the copy, which alone Protestants hold up as the standard of perfection, and the Rule of Faith! Bible.

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