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I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Wives. We know of none that David married. But, as king, he enjoyed alone that privilege. Grot. Calmet. 2:7. and 16:21.—Unto thee. Hebrew “I would have given thee such and such.” Calmet.—Septuagint “I will moreover give thee like unto these;” a continuation of prosperity. Bible.—This singular love, which God was still disposed to manifest unto David, touched his heart with peculiar force. Salien.
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