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2 Kings 10:27

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brake down the image: 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 23:7-14; Leviticus 26:30; Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25; 1 Kings 16:32; 2 Chronicles 34:3-7

made it a draught house: This was an ancient mode of degradation, which still continues in the East; and we are informed, that Abbas the Great, king of Persia, having conquered Bagdad, treated the tomb of Hanifah, one of the fathers of the church among the Turks, in a similar manner. Ezra 6:11; Daniel 2:5, Daniel 3:29

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