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He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
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Verse 7. Graven. Prot. “a carved image (the idol which he had made) in,” and so forth It seems to have been sacred to the grove, ( Bible.) or a representation of Astarte, 4 Kennicott. 21:7. The ark was taken away, (Calmet. 25:3) to make place for this impure deity, which had four (S. Basil) or five faces, (Euseb. Salien) that people might adore it on all sides.
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