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Judges 17:2

Judges 17:2

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about: etc. Houbigant renders this, "and for which you put me to my oath."

cursedst: Judges 5:23; Deuteronomy 27:16; 1 Samuel 14:24, 1 Samuel 14:28, 1 Samuel 26:19; Nehemiah 13:25; Jeremiah 48:10; Matthew 26:74; Romans 9:3; 1 Corinthians 16:22

I took it: Proverbs 28:24

Blessed: Genesis 14:19, Genesis 24:30-31; Exodus 20:7; Ruth 3:10; 1 Samuel 23:21; Nehemiah 13:25; Psalms 10:3; 2 John 1:11

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