OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 15:4

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Nevertheless for David’s sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;

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Verse 4. Lamp, son; (Calmet. 11:36) though he deserved to have his family exterminated. Calmet.—He is preserved for his father’s sake.

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