OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 5:3

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“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until the LORD put his enemies under the soles of his feet.

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Verse 3. Wars. Many interpreters assert that this was the real impediment, (Tostat, Salien, and so forth) rather than the blood, which David had already spilt, 2 Kennicott. 7 and 1 Chronicles 22:8.

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