OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 2:24

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Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”

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Verse 24. House. This generally denotes children, and Roboam was born this year. Some have considered his birth as miraculous, supposing that Solomon was not above 12 years old, verse 9. Saint Jerome Ep. ad Vital.

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