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Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”
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Verse 17. Monument. Hebrew tsiun, “an eminence” of “dry” earth, (Ezekiel 39:15) heaped upon a corpse; whence the Latin tumulus. Servius. Calmet.—It seems some inscription was still to be seen on the tomb. Menochius.—Thou, and so forth Septuagint “which he proclaimed against the altar.” Bible.
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