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However the Lord didn’t choose the nation for the place’s sake, but the place for the nation’s sake.
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Verse 19. Place. Temples and victims are for our own advantage. Isaiah 1:11. Jeremiah 6:20 and 3 Kennicott. 8:27. God has often suffered sacred places to be profaned, when piety had been disregarded. Calmet.—All religious rites are designed for God’s glory and men’s welfare; and hence, when they cease to serve God, they holy things are destroyed or taken away. Worthington.
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