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Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 20:7

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Genesis20:7

7 Now therefore restore the man his wife: for he is a prophet , and he shall pray for thee , and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou, that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine .

A person very dear to me and familiarly acquainted with me, and therefore the injuries done to him I take as done to my self. See Psal. 105. 15.

Which is one part of a Prophets work, Ier. 14. 11. and 15. 1.

Which was not unjust because they all had sins of their own, for which they deserved Death whensoever God thought fit to inflict it, and God might take this occasion to do it, that in punishing them he might also punish the King, whose subjects they were.

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