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1 Kings 9:2

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time,.... Junius and Tremellius read this verse with the following, to the end of the ninth, in a parenthesis, and render this clause, "for the Lord had appeared", &c.

and Piscator translates it, "moreover the Lord appeared", &c.

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