| I Chronicles 26:27
| Out of the wars, and the spoils won in battles, which they had consecrated to the building and furniture of the temple of the Lord.
| Wars. Hebrew, "out of the spoils won in battles, which they had set apart as sacred, to support the house," etc. Septuagint, "that the building of the house of the Lord might not be retarded." (Haydock) --- Yet these spoils remained untouched by Solomon, who imitated this piety, as others did, 3 Kings 14:26. The Romans adored Jupiter Praedator, as he was styled, because part of the plunder was allotted to him. (Servius in Virgil, Aeneid iii.) Irruimus ferro et Divos ipsumque vocamus In praedam partemque Jovem. People vied with each other in the munificence of their presents. (Caesar, Bel. Gall. vi.) (Calmet)
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