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4 ЦаÑÑÑв 18:37
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- CondensedBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
with their clothes rent: 2 Kings 5:7, 2 Kings 22:11, 2 Kings 22:19, Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:34, Job 1:20, Isaiah 33:7, Isaiah 36:21, Isaiah 36:22, Jeremiah 36:24, Matthew 26:65
Reciprocal: Leviticus 24:11 - blasphemed Numbers 14:6 - rent their clothes 1 Kings 21:27 - he rent 2 Kings 19:1 - he rent Ezra 9:3 - rent Isaiah 22:15 - Shebna Isaiah 22:20 - Eliakim Jeremiah 36:10 - the scribe Acts 14:14 - they
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Kings 18:37. Then came Eliakim - and Shebna - and Joah - to Hezekiah with their clothes rent — It was the custom of the Hebrews, when they heard any blasphemy, to rend their clothes, because this was the greatest of crimes, as it immediately affected the majesty of God, and it was right that a religious people should have in the utmost abhorrence every insult offered to the object of their religious worship. These three ambassadors lay the matter before the king as God's representative; he lays it before the prophet, as God's minister; and the prophet lays it before God, as the people's mediator.
