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“Because I exalted you out of the dust and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins,
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Verse 2. I have. All power comes from God, though he frequently disapproves of the means by which people obtain it. Bible.—Baasa was a traitorous usurper.—My people. Many had abandoned the Lord: ( Bible.) yet he still regards Israel as his people, sending prophets to reclaim them, and preserving many from bending the knee before Baal.
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