OLD TESTAMENT

2 Chronicles 33:19

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His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

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Verse 19. Contempt. Hebrew “prevarication.” Septuagint “apostacy.” Menochius.—Chozai means “seers.” Septuagint Prot. Bible.—But it more probably signifies some particular prophet, ( Calmet.) Isaias, (Saint Jerome Trad.) “Hanan,” (Syr.) or “Saphan.” Arab. version. Calmet.—This work, less than the book of the kings of Israel, is now lost. Menochius.

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or, the seers

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