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Lexicon :: Strong's H4687 - miṣvâ

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מִצְוָה
Transliteration
miṣvâ
Pronunciation
mits-vaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1887b

Strong’s Definitions

מִצְוָה mitsvâh, mits-vaw'; from H6680; a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 181x

The KJV translates Strong's H4687 in the following manner: commandments (177x), precept (4x), commanded (2x), law (1x), ordinances (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 181x
The KJV translates Strong's H4687 in the following manner: commandments (177x), precept (4x), commanded (2x), law (1x), ordinances (1x).

  1. commandment

    1. commandment (of man)

    2. the commandment (of God)

    3. commandment (of code of wisdom)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִצְוָה mitsvâh, mits-vaw'; from H6680; a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law):—(which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
STRONGS H4687: Abbreviations
מִצְוָה 181 noun feminine commandment; — מ׳ Proverbs 6:23 +; construct מִצְוִת Joshua 22:3 +; suffix מִצְוָֽֽֽתְךָ Deuteronomy 26:13; Psalm 119:96; מִצְוָתוֺ Numbers 15:81; plural מִצְוֺת absolute Leviticus 26:14 + (מִצְווֺת Nehemiah 9:14); construct Nehemiah 4:2 +; suffix מִצְוֺתַי Genesis 26:5 +, etc.; — not used before D and Jeremiah; in Jeremiah only of man's commands; not Ezekiel nor Minor Prophets, except Malachi; —
1. commandment, of man: king, 1 Kings 2:43; 2 Kings 18:36 = Isaiah 36:21; 2 Chronicles 8:15 + 14 times; אב מ׳ Jeremiah 35:14, 16, 18; Proverbs 6:20; אנשׁים מ׳ Isaiah 29:13; plural only Jeremiah 35:18; Proverbs 10:8; Nehemiah 10:33; המצוה, the order (title of property) Jeremiah 32:11.
2. of God:
a. following the commandment, code of law: 2 Chronicles 8:13; Ezra 10:3; Psalm 19:9; especially of D שׁמר המ׳ Deuteronomy 8:1, Deuteronomy 8:2 + 5 times D; עשׂח המ׳ Deuteronomy 6:25; Deuteronomy 15:5; אשׁר צוּה (ה)מ׳) Deuteronomy 26:13; Deuteronomy 30:11; Deuteronomy 31:5; סוּר מִן המ׳ Deuteronomy 17:20; הֵפַר מ׳ Numbers 15:31 (P); || תּוֺרָה Exodus 24:12 (RD) Joshua 22:5 (D) 2 Chron 14:3; 2 Chronicles 31:21; + חֻקִּים, מִשְׁפָּטִים Deuteronomy 5:28; Deuteronomy 6:1 +.
b. plural of commands of D and later codes with 2nd person plural (ye shall, shall not; BrHex. new ed., 246 ff.), Leviticus 4:2 + 5 times P, Isaiah 48:18 + 25 times (late; especially Psalm 119 + 20 times); שׁמר מ׳ Exodus 20:6 (R) Leviticus 22:31 (H) Deuteronomy 4:2 + 10 times D, 1 Kings 14:8; 2 Kings 18:6 + 5 times; עשׂה מ׳ Leviticus 26:14 (H) + 5 times; שׁמע מ׳ Deuteronomy 11:13 + 4 times; אשׁר צוּה המ׳ Leviticus 27:34 (H); עבר מ׳ Deuteronomy 26:13; 2 Chronicles 24:20; עזב מ׳ 1 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 17:16; Ezra 9:10; הפר מ׳ Ezra 9:14; in combinations, especially by Redactors and late writers; order various:
(1) with חֻקִּים Exodus 15:26 (RD) Deuteronomy 4:40; Ezra 7:11 +; ח׳ + משׁפטים Deuteronomy 26:17; 1 Kings 8:58; Nehemiah 1:7; Nehemiah 10:30; + משׁפטים, תורות Nehemiah 9:18; + תורה Nehemiah 9:14; + עדוֺת Deuteronomy 6:17; 1 Chronicles 29:19; 2 Chronicles 34:31.
(2) with חֻקּוֺת Leviticus 26:3 (H) Deuteronomy 6:2; Deuteronomy 10:13 + 9 times; ח׳ + משׁפטים Leviticus 26:15; Deuteronomy 8:11; Deuteronomy 11:1; Deuteronomy 30:16; 1 Kings 6:12 + תורה, משׁפטים Psalm 89:32, + משׁפטים, עֵדְוֺת 1 Kings 2:3; + תּוֺרוֺת Genesis 26:5 (RD); +עדוֺת 2 Kings 23:3. (3) with משׁפטים Numbers 36:13 (P) 1 Chronicles 28:7; Nehemiah 9:29; Daniel 9:5; with תורות Exodus 16:28 (R), with ערות Nehemiah 9:34.
c. of special commands of God 1 Samuel 13:13; 1 Kings 13:21; 2 Chronicles 29:25; Nehemiah 13:5; Malachi 2:1, 4; Job 23:12.
3. commandment, singular, of code of wisdom Proverbs 19:16, || תורה Proverbs 6:23, || דבר Proverbs 13:13; plural of special commands Proverbs 2:1; Proverbs 3:1; Proverbs 4:4; Proverbs 7:1, 2.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

26:5; 26:5

Exodus

15:26; 16:28; 20:6; 24:12

Leviticus

4:2; 22:31; 26:3; 26:14; 26:14; 26:15; 27:34

Numbers

15:31; 36:13

Deuteronomy

4:2; 4:40; 5:28; 6:1; 6:2; 6:17; 6:25; 8:1; 8:2; 8:11; 10:13; 11:1; 11:13; 15:5; 17:20; 26:13; 26:13; 26:13; 26:17; 30:11; 30:16; 31:5

Joshua

22:3; 22:5

1 Samuel

13:13

1 Kings

2:3; 2:43; 6:12; 8:58; 13:21; 14:8; 18:18

2 Kings

17:16; 18:6; 18:36; 23:3

1 Chronicles

28:7; 29:19

2 Chronicles

8:13; 8:15; 14:3; 24:20; 29:25; 31:21; 34:31

Ezra

7:11; 9:10; 9:14; 10:3

Nehemiah

1:7; 4:2; 9:14; 9:14; 9:18; 9:29; 9:34; 10:30; 10:33; 13:5

Job

23:12

Psalms

19:9; 89:32; 119; 119:96

Proverbs

2:1; 3:1; 4:4; 6:20; 6:23; 6:23; 7:1; 7:2; 10:8; 13:13; 19:16

Isaiah

29:13; 36:21; 48:18

Jeremiah

32:11; 35:14; 35:16; 35:18; 35:18

Daniel

9:5

Malachi

2:1; 2:4

H4687

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4687 matches the Hebrew מִצְוָה (miṣvâ),
which occurs 184 times in 177 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Deu 27:1–2Ch 29:15)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:1 - Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments H4687 which I command you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:10 - “You shall therefore [fn]obey the LORD your God, and do His commandments H4687 and His statutes which I command you today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - “Now it shall be, if you diligently [fn]obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments H4687 which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:9 - “The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments H4687 of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:13 - “The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments H4687 of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to [fn]observe them carefully,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:15 - “But it shall come about, if you do not [fn]obey the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments H4687 and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:45 - “So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not [fn]obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments H4687 and His statutes which He commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:8 - “And you shall again [fn]obey the LORD, and observe all His commandments H4687 which I command you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10 - [fn]if you [fn]obey the LORD your God to keep His commandments H4687 and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, [fn]if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:11 - “For this commandment H4687 which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it [fn]out of reach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:16 - in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments H4687 and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:5 - “The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments H4687 which I have commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:3 - “You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment H4687 of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:5 - “Only be very careful to observe the commandment H4687 and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments H4687 and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments H4687 of the LORD; they did not do as their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - They were for [fn]testing Israel, to find out if they would [fn]obey the commandments H4687 of the LORD, which He had commanded their fathers [fn]through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment H4687 of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now the LORD would have established your kingdom [fn]over Israel forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:3 - “Keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, H4687 His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:43 - “Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD, and the command H4687 which I [fn]have laid on you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:14 - “If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, H4687 as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:12 - “Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments H4687 by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:58

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:58 - that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments H4687 and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:61

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:61 - “Let your heart therefore be [fn]wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, H4687 as at this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:6 - “But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments H4687 and My statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:34 - ‘Nevertheless I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him [fn]ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of My servant David whom I chose, who observed My commandments H4687 and My statutes;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:38 - ‘Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments, H4687 as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21 - and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have [fn]disobeyed the [fn]command of the LORD, and have not observed the commandment H4687 which the LORD your God commanded you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:8 - and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you—yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments H4687 and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:18 - He said, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, because you have forsaken the commandments H4687 of the LORD and you have followed the Baals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:13 - Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, H4687 My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - They forsook all the commandments H4687 of the LORD their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an [fn]Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:19 - Also Judah did not keep the commandments H4687 of the LORD their God, but walked in the [fn]customs [fn]which Israel had [fn]introduced.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:34 - To this day they do according to the earlier customs: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they [fn]follow their statutes or their ordinances or the law, or the commandments H4687 which the LORD commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:37 - “The statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment H4687 which He wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever; and you shall not fear other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:6 - For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, H4687 which the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:36

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:36 - But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s commandment H4687 was, “Do not answer him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:3 - The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments H4687 and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people [fn]entered into the covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:7 - ‘I will establish his kingdom forever if he resolutely performs My commandments H4687 and My ordinances, as [fn]is done now.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:8 - “So now, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek after all the commandments H4687 of the LORD your God so that you may possess the good land and bequeath it to your sons after you forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:19 - and give to my son Solomon a perfect heart to keep Your commandments, H4687 Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and to build the [fn]temple, for which I have made provision.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:19 - “But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments H4687 which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:13 - and did so according to the daily rule, offering them up according to the commandment H4687 of Moses, for the sabbaths, the new moons and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Booths.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:14 - Now according to the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their duties of praise and ministering before the priests according to the daily rule, and the gatekeepers by their divisions at every gate; for David the man of God had so commanded. H4687

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:15 - And they did not depart from the commandment H4687 of the king to the priests and Levites in any manner or concerning the storehouses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:4 - and commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers and to observe the law and the commandment. H4687

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:4 - but sought the God of his father, [fn]followed His commandments, H4687 and did not act as Israel did.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 19:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:10 - “Whenever any dispute comes to you from your brethren who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, H4687 statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them so that they may not be guilty before the LORD, and wrath may not come on you and your brethren. Thus you shall do and you will not be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:20 - Then the Spirit of God [fn]came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus God has said, ‘Why do you transgress the commandments H4687 of the LORD and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:21 - So they conspired against him and at the command H4687 of the king they stoned him [fn]to death in the court of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:15 - They assembled their brothers, consecrated themselves, and went in to cleanse the house of the LORD, according to the commandment H4687 of the king by the words of the LORD.

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