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1 Chronicles 16:35

1 Chronicles 16:35

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

36. And say ye, save us, O God of our salvation,.... The author of temporal, spiritual, and eternal salvation; the words are a direction to the singers, and those that sung with them, to express the prayer and doxology in the next verse, which both are the same with .

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