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2 Samuel 12:10

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Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’

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Verse 10. House. What a dismal scene opens itself to our view during the remaining part of David’s reign! Bible.—Scarcely one of his successors was free from war; even Solomon was disturbed by the rebellion of Jeroboam, and so forth and many of David’s family and descendants came to an untimely end, verse 6. Calmet.—Six sons of Josaphat, all Joram’s, except one, Josias, the children of Sedecias, &chapter 4 Kennicott. 25. and so forth Worthington.

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