1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| I Kings 5:3 | Thou knowest the will of David, my father, and that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars that were round about him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet. | Wars. Many interpreters assert that this was the real impediment, (Tostat; Salien, etc.) rather than the blood, which David had already spilt, 2 Kings vii., and 1 Paralipomenon 22:8. |