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2 Chronicles 7:8

2 Chronicles 7:8

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

kept: Leviticus 23:34-43; Numbers 29:12-38; Deuteronomy 16:13-15; 1 Kings 8:65; Nehemiah 8:13-18; Zechariah 14:16-19; John 7:2, John 7:27-39

a very great: 2 Chronicles 30:13

from the entering: That is, from one extremity of the land to another; Hamath being situated on the north, and the river of Egypt on the south. Genesis 15:18; Numbers 34:5-8; Joshua 13:3-5; 1 Kings 4:21-25; Amos 6:14

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