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But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
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Verse 22. Jerusalem. Many were perhaps displeased at this injunction, and Rabsaces endeavoured to excite them to revolt, and insinuates ( Calmet.) that the king had made God his enemy, ( Bible.) and must expect punishment from him. Theod. in Isai. xxxvi. 5. He perhaps was ignorant that these altars were contrary to his law. Menochius.—Yet the Jews say that Rabsaces was son of Isaias, (ap. Saint Jerome bib.) or a Samaritan.
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