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2 Chronicles 28:5

2 Chronicles 28:5

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

Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria,.... Whose name was Rezin, 2Ki 16:5, though that is an after expedition to this, which is there related.

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