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Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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Verse 39. Of ivory. The palace was greatly adorned with it, (see Amos 3:15 and Psalms 44:9. Calmet.) like the palace of Solomon. Calmet. 10:18. Pliny (xvi. 43.) speaks of bedsteads and vehicles of ivory, in the same sense. Tirinus.
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