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1 Kings 8:37

King James Version (KJV)

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1 Kings 8:37

Verse 37 of 66

Scripture focus

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be];

1 Kings 8:37 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Kings 8:37

Theological / Devotional

Famine. The calamities listed were distinctly threatened in the Mosaic code (Lev. 26:16, 20, 25; Deut. 28:22, 35, 38, 42). It is when men forsake the ways of righteousness that such judgments are multiplied, and when they are witnessed through the length and breadth of the land, the world may know that the restraining hand of the Lord is being withdrawn.

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