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Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the LORD. The people did according to this promise.
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Verse 13. Lap, or skirt of my robes. Tirinus.—Such figurative actions were very common. Thus a Roman ambassador at Carthage, folding up his garment, said he brought peace or war. Livy 21:18. Calmet.—Said. Behold how easily was that effected at Jerusalem, which the Romans could never perfectly bring about, after the most violent riots! Tirinus.
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