OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 14:35

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35

Saul built an altar to the LORD. This was the first altar that he built to the LORD.

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Verse 35. First. Saul begins to exercise himself in acts of religion, which only belonged to a prophet, and so forth He thought he might do so in quality of king, thus consecrating a monument of his victory to the God of armies. It was perhaps the very stone on which the oxen had been just before killed for the people. Calmet.

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