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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

to the Temple. Translators may use the more detailed term storehouse or the broader “Temple” according to the resources of vocabulary and sentence structure in their language. That there may be food in my house: The word here translated food often means “prey,” but clearly it has a more general sense in the present context (compare Pro 31:15). The purpose of the food was no doubt the maintenance of the priests and Levites who conducted the Temple worship. GECL2 makes this clear by saying, “so that
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