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The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father’s house tax-free in Israel.”
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Verse 25. Tribute, and all public charges, which may be burdensome. Calmet.—It does not appear that these words are addressed to any one in particular, nor that the king had authorized such a declaration. Bible.—Yet the people all persisted in the same declaration, so that a promise must have been made. Menochius.—It was never at least fulfilled. Bible.—Christ having overcome the devil, receives the Church for his spouse. Worthington.
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