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Ecclesiastes 1:16

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communed: 2 Kings 5:20; Psalms 4:4, Psalms 77:6; Isaiah 10:7-14; Jeremiah 22:14; Ezekiel 38:10-11; Daniel 4:30

Lo: Ecclesiastes 2:9; 1 Kings 3:12-13, 1 Kings 4:30, 1 Kings 10:7, 1 Kings 10:23-24; 2 Chronicles 1:10-12, 2 Chronicles 2:12, 2 Chronicles 9:22-23

great experience of: Heb. seen much, Hebrews 5:14

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