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2 Kings 19:4

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It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

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Verse 4. It may. Lit. “if perhaps the Lord hear.” Bible.—Found. After such devastation has been made in the country, particularly by carrying away the ten tribes, ( Calmet.) Ezechias recommends the kingdom to the prayers of the prophet; as we are exhorted to have recourse to the intercession of the saints. Bible.

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