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- 1 Chronicles
- Chapter 5
- Verse 25
1 Chronicles 5:25
And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
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Commentary
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
The gods of the people of the land - We see the reason why God delivered the Hagarites into the hands of these tribes; they were abominable idolaters, and therefore God destroyed them.
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The Captivity of the Trans-Jordanic Tribes
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