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1 Chronicles 12:17

1 Chronicles 12:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

to meet them: Heb. before them

If ye be come: 1 Samuel 16:4; 2 Samuel 3:20-25; 1 Kings 2:13; 2 Kings 9:22; Psalms 12:1-2

heart: 1 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 18:3; 2 Kings 10:15; Psalms 86:11; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Philippians 1:27

knit: Heb. one, Jeremiah 32:39; Acts 4:32; 1 Corinthians 1:10

wrong: or, violence

God: Genesis 31:42, Genesis 31:53; 1 Samuel 24:11-17, 1 Samuel 26:23-24; Psalms 7:6; 1 Peter 2:23

rebuke it: Zechariah 3:2; Jude 1:9

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