12It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
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And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD. …
And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)The apostle, having made his way to that which he had to say, concerning the rejection of the body of his countrymen, with a protestation of his own affection for them and a concession of their undoubted privileges, comes in these verses, and the following part of the chapter, to prove that the rejection of the Jews, by the establishment of the gospel dispensation, did not at all invalidate the wo…
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