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So Simon was reconciled to them, and didn’t fight against them; but he expelled them from the city and cleansed the houses where the idols were, and then entered into it with singing and giving praise.
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Verse 47. Idols, of a domestic kind. The city had been assigned to Juda, and must be purified. Joshua 15:47. Deuteronomy 7:25. Calmet.—Mercy is most pleasing to God and men, provided justice and religion be not injured. Worthington.
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