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The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it and his habitation;
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Verse 25. City. Abiathar had consulted the Lord for David, and received no answer; whence the king concluded that he had not suffered enough. Menochius.—David displays a faith which could hardly have been expected of the carnal Jews. He confesses that God will reward the virtuous, and punish the wicked, independently of the ark, the symbol of his presence, and of which he deemed himself unworthy. Calmet.
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