OLD TESTAMENT

Zechariah 5:4

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I will cause it to go out,” says the LORD of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

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Verse 4. Thief. Nabuchodonosor is often so styled. Saint Jerome iv. 7. This title comprises all the injuries done to man, as he that sweareth falsely refers to those where God’s honour is concerned ( Calmet.) more immediately. Bible.

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