OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 9:20

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As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, don’t set your mind on them, for they have been found. For whom does all Israel desire? Is it not you and all your father’s house?”

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Verse 20. Best. The regal power, which all desired. Hebrew “to or on whom is all the desire of Israel?” Any great felicity is called a desire, as the Messias, the spouse in the Canticle, 5:16. Ag. 2:8. Septuagint “to whom the beautiful things of Israel?”

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