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2 Chronicles 19:5
2 Chronicles 19:5
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providing, if possible, to keep them so by the influence of a settled
magistracy. He had sent preachers among them, to instruct them (ch.…2 Chronicles 19:52 Chronicles 19:5 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,.... Inferior judges in lesser courts of judicature than that at Jerusalem, and that in every city, that judgment and justice might…