OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 1:21

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Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

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Verse 21. Offenders. I, as guilty of adultery; and my son, as a mamzer; (Deuteronomy 23:2. Tirinus.) or we shall be accounted pretenders, ( Bible.) and condemned as guilty of high treason. Calmet.—Our hopes and expectations will be frustrated. Vat. E.—We shall be despised or punished. Worthington.

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