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There isn’t at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to offer before you, and to find mercy.
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Verse 38. Thee, in Jerusalem, ( Bible.) or Judea. There were chiefs and judges, (Calmet. 13) as well as prophets, (Ezech. and so forth) among the captives. Yet the republic was in disorder. Calmet.—Sedecias was dead, Joakim in prison, so that no Jewish king ruled over the people; nor was there any prophet in the promised land, Jeremias being either dead or in Egypt. Worthington.—Prophets were at least very rare. Menochius.
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