OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 3:20

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By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

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Verse 20. Out. The higher and lower waters being divided, ( Calmet.) or the channels formed to receive the waters. Piscat.—It may also speak of the deluge. Ven. Bede.—With. Hebrew “have distilled dew.” This is so copious, as to resemble rain in Palestine. Judges 6:37 and 2 Kennicott. 17:12.

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