Enjoyed this article? 22:2-4). The people with whom Joash surrounded himself impacted the entire kingdom. All that remains of the name is the final syllable, the extremely common theophoric suffix -yah. 22:52, 53). Zechariahs reprimand didnt sit well with Joash. But Elijah was the only one courageous enough to stand up openly against Jezebels wickedness. x. Repentance leads back to relationship with God. At Jehorams death, his son by Athaliah became king of Judah. According to the Bible, David, of the Tribe of Judah, was the third king of the United Monarchy of Israel and Judah. Jehoram/Joram had more than one wife (exact number unknown) (2 Chronicles 21:17). Ahab called his yes men together and they assured him that the Lord would give Ramoth-Gilead into the hand of the king. In David's case, this was done by the prophet Samuel. They formed a ring all around the young king Joash and put the royal crown on him. The Tree of Jesse (a reference to David' father) is a traditional Christian artistic representation of Jesus' genealogical connection to David. The influences in our lives matter. When he died, Scripture says it was to no ones sorrow (2 Chronicles 21:20). In Jewish eschatology, the Messiah is a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age and world to come. Many of the kings had large numbers of wives and/or concubines: We do not know how many wives Jehoshaphat himself had, but we know that he had seven sons. Treason! Officers of the army took her away and killed her. Instead of letting the love and graciousness of Jesus Christ control us, our sinful natures take over and we go into our rage routine or sulk syndrome, whichever it is with us. 3. "Solomon's stables" (or Ahab's), "King Solomon's mines" at Timna - and there are some who are still hard at work and have found Mount Sinai (at Mount Karkoum in the Negev) or Joshua's altar at Mount Ebal. Indeed, he is referred to by the author of Kings as being "more evil than all the kings before him". [5] These actions were said to have led to severe consequences for Israel, including a drought that lasted for several years and Jezebel's fanatical religious persecution of the prophets of Yahweh, which Ahab condoned. . He could have purged the land from all idols and all high places of worship. Joash/Jehoash: Ahaziah king of Judah and Jehoahaz king of Israel each had a son with this name who became king after them. All the latter turned from idolaters into worshipers of the God of Israel (Tanna debe Eliyahu, i. Joram "did evil in the sight of the Lord" ( 2 Chronicles 21:6 ). Accordingly, he is described as undergoing fasts and penances for a long time; praying thrice a day to God for forgiveness, until his prayer was heard (Pire R. El. He is also the namesake of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville. 24:17). i. Naboth declined the offer, just as he should have done, for God had forbidden the Jews to sell their paternal inheritance (Lev. Verse 1. endstream endobj 127 0 obj <. 4. Mar Ahunai lived in the period succeeding Mar Zutra II, but for almost fifty years after the failed revolt he did not dare to appear in public, and it is not known whether even then (c.550) he really acted as Exilarch. [1 Kings 16:2934] The Hebrew Bible presents Ahab as a wicked king, particularly for condoning Jezebel's influence on religious policies and his principal role behind Naboth's arbitrary execution. Two of his sons fled to Al-Andalus, where they found refuge with Joseph, the son and successor of Samuel ibn Naghrillah. He is introduced to the pages of Scripture with these shocking words: And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all who were before him (1 Kgs. Jehu Slaughters Ahab's Descendants. Interestingly, two of the sons had the same name: Azariah. The worship of Jehovah must have seemed dull and commonplace by comparison, and she was determined to change it. He could have refused audience to the leaders of Judah who brought bad advice. Joash had ruled Judah for 40 years. 21:1). Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. [53] Some Christian commentators also believe that this same "curse" is the reason why Zerubbabel, the rightful Solomonic king during the time of Nehemiah, was not given a kingship under the Persian empire.[54]. He didnt need to listen. Some do. The Exilarchate in the Sasanian Empire was briefly abolished as a result of revolt by the Mar-Zutra II in the late 5th century CE, with his son Mar-Zutra III being denied the office and relocating to Tiberias, then within the Byzantine Empire. King David and King Ahab . The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke. [1 Kings 22] The Hebrew Bible says that dogs licked his blood, according to the prophecy of Elijah. He wants to conquer them with His love. The infant Joash remained the only living descendant of David. For the survival of those around us, for the happiness of our mates and for harmony in our marriages, we must face up to every trace of stubborn self-will and claim Gods grace to deal with it. In addition, Mormon eschatology includes multiple references to other prophesied Davidic figures,[55] including one by the name of David who would come in the last days to inherit the throne and kingdom of David.[56]. Sylvia Schroeder loves connecting Gods Word with real life and writing about it. Ahab , Jehoshaphat's contemporary, was the son of Omri who usurped the throne and founded the third dynasty of Israel. Jezebel had grown up steeped in the worship of Baal and his female consort, Astarte (or Ashtoreth). He reigned for 22 years, from 930-909 BC. The Levites had always been excluded from the Israelite monarchy, so when the Maccabees assumed the throne in order to rededicate the defiled Second Temple, a cardinal rule was broken. Idolatry never pleases God. Jehu's name, meaning "Yahweh is he," portrays well . How can a wife increase her respect for her husband? But the high places were not taken away (2 Kings 12:3). That step of faith will open the channel of Gods power. It was the lowest point in the godly prophets great career. They each ruled their own kingdom and their reigns even overlapped. And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did (for Ahabs daughter was his wife), and he did evil in the sight of the Lord (2 Chron. Her love for pasta and all things Italian stems from years of ministry abroad. 21:5). Similar to Mitchell Dayan, his discovery came as a result of a death in the family. King Ahab was justly judged by God because he disobeyed the Lord's direct commands, he abused his responsibility as Israel's king, and he led God's people right into idolatry. of [1], Ahab became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah, and reigned for twenty-two years, according to 1 Kings. He . The family tree extends up to King David in simplified form, however the generations around Jehoshaphat include much more detail. As Jehu rode to execute vengeance on the house of Ahab, Jehoram cried, Is it peace, Jehu? Jehu summed up Jehorams reign with his reply: What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many? (2 Kgs. xi. 1, 2). A man will do strange things when he is taunted and ridiculed by his wife. Nevertheless, he paid great respect to the representatives of learning, "to the Torah given in twenty-two letters," for which reason he was permitted to reign for twenty-two successive years. 144 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<23A5839CF278C442B7A08A0DCFA6EFCE>]/Index[126 45]/Info 125 0 R/Length 90/Prev 58181/Root 127 0 R/Size 171/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream A family tree centred on King Jehoshaphat is included below. Male descendants of King David ruled Israel until the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 597 BCE, and Jews scattered. Sanh. But Jehoshaphat was still not satisfied. Jewish Quarterly Review, hereafter "J. Q. R.", xv. We discover how thoroughly this weak and wicked man was dominated by his overbearing wife when she said, Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite (1 Kgs. Ahab is portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Sins of Jezebel (1953). One of them was the husband in the next marital relationship we want to study. SBL Academia Biblica 12. He was a righteous and faithful king who would be high on the list of the best kings of Judah although he had a problem with being too tolerant of evil people. Photo credit: GettyImages/Sviatlana Lazarenka. And that inflexible self-will which has never been broken and yielded to God may ultimately lead to much greater problems. The New Testament books of Matthew and Luke give two different accounts of the genealogy of Jesus that trace back to David. When we clean spiritual house, but dont slam the door completely, it leaves us vulnerable to greater sin. Athaliah was the daughter of either king Omri, or of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel, the queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and later queen regnant 841-835 BCE. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. The first step to victory is simply to admit that continually demanding our own way is disobedience to Gods Word, and therefore sin. Choose carefully what andwho you allow to influence you. . 11). As we might expect, Ahab rejected Micaiahs prophecy and had him cast into prison. Instead, he reacted with offense. The Exilarchate in Mesopotamia was officially restored after the Arab conquest in the 7th century and continued to function during the early Caliphates. Aabbu; Greek: ; Latin: Achab) was the seventh king of Israel since Jeroboam I, the son and successor of Omri, and the husband of Jezebel of Sidon, according to the Hebrew Scriptures. Several Ashkenazi scholars also claimed descent from King David. . (John 14:17). However, this theory has been widely contested. She slaughtered all the royal heirs, or so she thought. %PDF-1.5 % Family trees. Mom to four, grandma to 14, and wife to her one and only love, Sylvia enjoys writing about all of them. So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger according to all that his father had done (1 Kgs. [43] In 2020, Roth chose Brando Crawford, a descendant from both grandfathers, to represent the organization internationally. The Tel Dan Stele mentions the death of the reigning king from "BYTDWD",[6] (interpreted as "House of David") and thus far is the only extrabiblical explicit mention of David himself. And this is often the saddest side effect of lives like Ahabs and Jezebels. These offenses and atrocities stirred up populist resentment from figures such as Elijah and Micaiah. Several families, as late as the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah, the brother of David ben Zakkai who had been banished to Chorasan (see the genealogies in [Lazarus 1890] pp. The Lord did see. Ahaziah also died after a short reign, leaving no one in the immediate royal family left to take the throne. Wilhelm Bacher, Jacob Zallel Lauterbach (1906). Athaliah was queen of Judah from 841-835 BC and the only female monarch to sit on David's throne in biblical history. After slaying King Jehoram, the son of Ahab, he rode to Jezreel. After his death, the leaders of Judah convinced Joash to return to idol worship. Because the stele coincides the death of the Davidic king with the death of [Jeho]ram, the king of the Kingdom of Samaria, scholars have reconstructed the second slain king as Ahaziah of Judah, the only king contemporary to Jehoram with a name ending in -yah. 2d, By ambition and desire of rule, to make way for which many . Baal was considered to be the god of the land. And few of My servants are grateful. The trouble often starts when our mates infringe upon our inviolable rights. . On the other hand, excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa[20] and Eglon,[21] as well as structures from Hazor, Gezer, Megiddo and other sites conventionally dated to the 10th century BCE, are interpreted by many scholars to show that Judah was capable of accommodating large-scale urban societies centuries before minimalist scholars claim,[22][23][24] and some have taken the physical archaeology of tenth-century Canaan as consistent with the former existence of a unified state on its territory,[25] as archaeological findings demonstrate substantial development and growth at several sites, plausibly related to the tenth century. A descendant of Issachar: One of the sons of Izrahiah, a descendant of Issachar, was called Obadiah. So it was that the evil influence moved south. My Way The Story of Ahab and Jezebel. Maybe the husband will not let his wife buy something she thinks she has a right to have, or the wife prepares an absolutely terrible dinner on the very day hubby is expecting his favorite dish. A advice to you Michel do not use as source of anything that has been . Shalmaneser III of Assyria documented in 853 BC that he defeated an alliance of a dozen kings in the Battle of Qarqar; one of these was Ahab. Ahab (Hebrew: , Modern: Aav, Tiberian: A; Akkadian: Abbu [a-a-ab-bu]; Koin Greek: Achab; Latin: Achab) was the seventh king of Israel, the son and successor of King Omri and the husband of Jezebel of Sidon, according to the Hebrew Bible. The Cross And Separation From The World (1 Peter 4:1-6), 7. God wants to break our sinful, stubborn wills. xii. Two sons of Ahab and Jezebel later ruled in Israel. These are possible confusions because ancient societies are viewed from a modern perspective. 21:7). The Beginner's Guide. The Cross And Our Response to Trials (1 Peter 4:12-19), 8. Some prophets survived by compromising their convictions and turning into yes men for Ahab. Your throne shall be established forever 2 Sam 7:16 ESV. It is never easy to admit when we have sinned. After seven years, David became king of a reunited Kingdom of Israel.However, in about 930 BCE the united kingdom split, with ten of the twelve Tribes of Israel rejecting . What can you do to combat it? However, The Jewish Quarterly Review mentions that Hezekiah was liberated from prison, and became head of the academy, and is mentioned as such by a contemporary in 1046. 170 0 obj <>stream His great kingdom, enlarged and more richly endowed by his son Solomon, had been fractured into two weakened fragments. Of this disgraceful incident in Ahabs life, God said, Surely there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife incited him (1 Kgs. 21:4). When are you going to start acting like a man? So the next time he did, and he lost his job and everyone suffered. There were two other names which were later used as names of kings in both kingdoms: Jehoahaz and Shallum. A descendant of David: The son of Arnan and father of Shecanian was named Obadiah. Scripture says, When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head, and looked out the window (2 Kgs. According to the Tanakh, upon being chosen and becoming king, one was customarily anointed with holy oil poured on one's head. She replied, Do you now reign over Israel? (1 Kgs. [1 Kings 16:30][4], Nonetheless, there were achievements that the author took note of, including his ability to fortify numerous Israelite cities and build an ivory palace. With the ever-present menace of Syria and the growing threat of Assyria, Ahab decided that he needed an alliance with this neighboring nation, so he made a treaty with the king of Phoenicia and sealed it by marrying his daughter. [7] If, however, the numbers are referring to allies, they could possibly include forces from Tyre, Judah, Edom, and Moab. 118, Warsaw, 1889), Micah was buried in Chesil, a town in southern Judah (Josh. Based on Luke Jesus will inherit David's throne, however, Jehoiakim descendants can Not sit on David's throne as he is cursed by God. These families had special rights in Narbonne, Barcelona, and Castile. All subsequent kings in both the ancient first united Kingdom of Israel and the later Kingdom of Judah claimed direct descent from King David to validate their claim to the throne in order to rule over the Israelite tribes. In his book, A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, Arthur J. Zuckerman proposes a theory that from 768 to 900 CE a Jewish Princedom ruled by members of the Exilarchs existed in feudal France. Because Jews have historically believed that the Messiah will be a male-line descendant of David, the lineage of Jesus is sometimes cited as a reason why Jews do not believe that he was the Messiah. Joram did evil in the sight of the Lord (2 Chronicles 21:6). You'll get a new micro-tale, or an informative article every week, as well as occasional special offers from Bible Tales Online. . Answer. But the two best known were both kings and their timelinesoverlapped by two years. But they react differently when they do not get it. So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him . And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food (1 Kgs. When he died, Scripture says it was "to no one's sorrow" ( 2 Chronicles 21:20 ). [3], King Omri, Ahab's father and founder of the short-lived Omri dynasty, seems to have been a successful military leader; he is reported in the text of the Moabite Mesha Stele to have "oppressed Moab for many days." Athaliah didn't kill over every single descendant of David, only the royal heirs who could have threatened her claim to the throne. ), Richard L. Strauss authored nine books, and served as pastor of churches in Fort Worth, TX, Huntsville, AL. 1:12; Coniah, Jer. Money, relationships, addictions, and power can be idols that vie for our affections and gain control over us. The Stepped Stone Structure and Large Stone Structure in Jerusalem, assuming Eilat Mazar's contested stratigraphic dating of the structures to the Iron Age I is accurate, show that Jerusalem was at least somewhat populated in King David's time, and lends some credence to the biblical claim that Jerusalem was originally a Canaanite fortress; however, Jerusalem seems to have been barely developed until long after David's death,[19] bringing into question the possibility that it could have been the imperial capital described in the Bible. Intermarriage between Israelite and Judean royalty added a twisted mess of seriously bad branches toJoashs family tree. 10 Now Ahab had seventy sons in p Samaria. During the reign of his grandmother, temple items were plundered for Baal worship. ", "We Are Family: King David's Descendants Gather for 'Reunion', "The Real Messiah A Jewish Response to Missionaries", "David, Prophetic Figure of the Last Days", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Davidic_line&oldid=1148547226, This page was last edited on 6 April 2023, at 20:51. 2 Kings 11:1. Then she brought 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Ashtoreth from Phoenicia, housed them in the palace, and fed them in royal style. What do I do about calling a priest father at my Catholic University? Jehoram of Israel. His reign was slightly more emphasized upon than the previous kings, due to his blatant trivialization of the "sins of Jeroboam", which the previous kings of Israel were plagued by, and his subsequent marriage with a pagan princess, the nationwide institution of Baal worship, the persecution of Yahweh's prophets and Naboth's shocking murder. Even though we may not see a full picture of what He is accomplishing, we can always be confident He is faithful to His promises in all He does. Ahab, also spelled Achab, (flourished 9th century bce), seventh king of the northern kingdom of Israel (reigned 874-c. 853 bce), according to the Bible, and son of King Omri. David merely sat upon the Eternal's throne. [3][4][5] The Christian gospels claim that Jesus descends from the Davidic line and is therefore the legitimate Hebrew Messiah. Connect with Sylvia on her blog, When the House is Quiet, her Facebook page, orTwitter. A widely spread traditional Christian interpretation relates the non-continuation of the main Davidic line from Solomon to the godlessness of the line of Jehoiachin which started in the early 500s BC, when Jeremiah cursed the main branch of the Solomonic line, by saying that no descendant of "[Je]Coniah" would ever reign on the throne of Israel again (Jeremiah 22:30). A number of Jewish families in the Iberian peninsula and within Mesopotamia continued to preserve the tradition of descent from Exilarchs in the Late Middle Ages, including the families of Abravanel, ibn Yahya and Ben-David. But if Luke's genealogy is not that of Mary, there is no explicit biblical affirmation that Jesus is physically a descendant of David. Descendants of the house of exilarchs were living in various places long after the office became extinct. According to scholars within Orthodox Judaism, this is considered to have contributed to their downfall and the eventual downfall of Judea; internal strife allowing for Roman occupation and the violent installation of Herod the Great as client king over the Roman province of Judea; and the subsequent destruction of the Second Temple by the future Emperor Titus. That soldier did not know he was shooting at the king, but his arrow penetrated the narrow slit between the pieces of Ahabs armor. His plan was for Jesus to be heir to Davids throne. They had a special economic and social status in the Jewish community, and they were close to their respective governments, some serving as advisers and tax collectors/finance ministers. The priest gave the captains the spears and shields that had belonged to King David. All rights reserved. Ahab knew the Syrians would be after him personally, so he removed his royal garments and disguised himself as a regular soldier. There areseveral different men by that name in the Old Testament. [31] An unsuccessful attempt of David ben Daniel of the Davidic line to establish an Exilarchate in the Fatimid Caliphate failed and ended with his downfall in 1094. And it slowly but surely eats away at our relationship. 22:17). The king of Judah called Jehoahaz was also known as Shallum, a name he shared with an earlier king of Israel. 11:31, shows that her fame had risen at the time when St. Matthew wrote. Accounts of the life of Athaliah are to be found in 2 Kings 8:16-11:16 and 2 Chronicles 22:10-23:15. The name Joash is not an uncommon Bible name. If you enjoy reading real Bible-based fiction or are willing to give it a try, enter your name and email address in the fields below, then click "Subscribe". Shed love to tell you about it over a steaming cup of cappuccino. Jehu was the son of Jehoshaphat, although he is more commonly mentioned as son of Nimshi, his grandfather, perhaps because Nimshi was more well-known. [35] Hai Gaon was the son of Sherira Gaon, who claimed descent from Rabbah b. Abuha, who belonged to the family of the exilarch, thereby claiming descent from the Davidic line. As the boy-king grew under Jehoiadas tutelage, he did what was right. Shortly after his marriage to Jezebel, Ahab not only beautified the palace at Samaria so that it came to be called the ivory house (1 Kgs. Ahab children was cursed for four generations but Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim was cursed for all generations Jer 22:30, 36:30! They just want to feel sorry for themselves and let everybody know how bad things are for them. . Six were murdered by the oldest son Jehoram/Joram after he became king. Salem Media Group. 25:23-34). endstream endobj startxref The descendants of the Karaite Exilarchs have been referred to above. Yet their influence lived on in their children. 21:6). Talmudic literature represents him as an enthusiastic idolater who left no hilltop in the Land of Israel without an idol before which he bowed, and to which he or his wife, Jezebel, brought his weight in gold as a daily offering. [4], Ahab was one of the three or four wicked kings of Israel singled out by tradition as being excluded from the future world of bliss (Sanh. Abijah/Abijam was the son of Maacah, the daughter of Absalom (2 Chronicles 11:20-22), who was the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur (2 Samuel 3:3). daughter of Jezebel and Ahab, King of Northern Kingdom of . [46], In Jewish eschatology, the term mashiach, or "Messiah", came to refer to a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to be anointed with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age. Atlanta, 2004, 15359, 219. Jezebel's death, however, was more dramatic than Ahab's. 6. He could have, but he chose not to. Does God Really Work All Things Together for Good? Joash did not need to give the time of day to the voices of those whose advice contradicted Gods commands. Then by an act of your will, determine to do the loving thing. Those who live with people like this eventually find themselves emotionally destroyed. Joash the boy-king of Judah reigned from 835-796 BC. According to 2 Kings, 2 Kings 8:16, in the fifth year of Jehoram of Israel, (another) Jehoram became . 11a), ruler over the whole world. Be honest with Him. Israel would be scattered on the mountains like sheep without a shepherd (1 Kgs. The names of Kafnai and his son Haninai, who were Exilarchs in the second half of the 6th century, have been preserved. The third is again between Ahab and an unnamed prophet who condemns Ahab for his actions in a battle that had just taken place. Why didnt you stand up to him? one wife jeered when she heard of her husbands latest disagreement with the boss. Initially, David was king over the Tribe of Judah only and ruled from Hebron, but after seven and a half years, the other Israelite tribes, who found themselves leaderless after the death of Ish-bosheth, chose him to be their king as well.[28]. All subsequent kings of Judah, except Athaliah, are said to be direct descendants of David. Among the families of the "Sons of the Free" are the families of Abravanel and Benveniste. They may refuse to get out of bed and even refuse to eat. Dont listen to bad advice. And his mothers name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Onui. The Northing Kingdom had 9 ruling dynasties while the Southern Kingdom was ruled only be the descendants of King David. [36][37] The patriarch of the Meisels family, Yitskhak Eizik Meisels, was an alleged 10th generation descendant of the Exilarch, Mar Ukba. Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:2-3). 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Athaliah married King Joram, son of Judah's King Jehoshaphat. While Joash had godly influences around him, he chose wisely and served well. Ahaziah king of Judah reigned for one year, while Ahaziah king of Israel reigned for two years. [1 Kings 22:39] Adherents of the Yahwist religion found their principal champion in Elijah. Dont you know that you are the king. Later rabbinical authorities grant the office of exilarch to family members that traced its patrilineal[29] descent from David, King of Israel. The existence of Ahab is historically supported outside the Bible. She planned to commit a hideous crime; she was going to pay two false witnesses to testify that they heard Naboth blaspheme God and the king, so that both he and his sons would be stoned to death and the king would be free to lay claim to his land (cf. ". She swore in her rage that she would kill Elijah, and he ran for his life, collapsed in the wilderness under a juniper tree, and pleaded with God to let him die. [1][2] He was later succeeded by his son, Solomon. Ahab's contribution was estimated at 2000 chariots and 10,000 men. Jehu killed Jehoram and Jezebel . We sometimes think life happens and we groan and moan for the way of it, but we often live the consequences of choice. [12] Naboth's soul was the lying spirit that was permitted to deceive Ahab to his death.[13]. [2] Most recently, Michael Coogan has dated Ahab's reign to 871852 BC. 21:2). You can take anything you want. With her Phoenician background, Jezebel could not seem to understand that even the king in Israel was subject to the laws of God.
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