OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 9:8

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Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?’

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Verse 8. Example. Hebrew “at this house, on high,” (or dedicated “to the most high;” Paral.) “every,” and so forth Bible.—It shall be treated with no more regard than the high places of idols. Calmet.—Though at present so much exalted, it shall be reduced to a heap of ruins, (Vatab.) and destroyed. Chal.

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