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2 Chronicles 6:5

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Since the day: 2 Samuel 7:6-7; 1 Kings 8:16

my name: Exodus 20:24, Exodus 23:21; Deuteronomy 12:5, Deuteronomy 12:11; Daniel 9:19

neither chose: The judges and Saul were chosen by God, for a season, to be rulers of Israel; but not to establish a permanent and hereditary authority over that people, as was the case with David. This clause is wanting in the parallel passage of Kings; but it helps to clear the sense. 1 Samuel 10:24, 1 Samuel 13:13-14, 1 Samuel 15:23; 2 Samuel 7:15-16

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