OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 8:6

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When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”

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Verse 6. Restore. “Restituere est possessorem facere fructusque reddere.” Caius.—Some think that the lands had been confiscated to the king, as being abandoned; or his authority was requisite, at least, to make the present occupiers give them up.

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