OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 14:17

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Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May the LORD, your God, be with you.’”

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Verse 17. Sacrifice; perfect and inviolable. Tirinus.—Cursing, provided he be in the right. Menochius.—Hebrew “the king to discern (hear) good and bad;” of consummate wisdom; (verse 20. Bible.) so that no one can impose upon him.

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