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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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For out: This is probably an allusion to some fact with which we are unacquainted. History furnishes many instances of mean persons raised to sovereign authority, and of kings being reduced to the meanest offices, and to a morsel. Agrippa mounted the throne of Israel after having been long in prison; and similar instances are not wanting in modern times. Gen 41:14, Gen 41:33-44; Job 5:11; Psa 113:7, Psa 113:8 also: Kg1 14:26, Kg1 14:27; Kg2 23:31-34, Kg2 24:1, Kg2 24:2, Kg2 24:6, Kg2 24:12, Kg2 25:7, Kg2 25:27-30; Lam 4:20; Dan 4:31 Ecclesiastes 4:15
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