1 Kings 1:9

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9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:


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By Henry MacLagan

Verse 9. Although the natural man inflamed by self-love, simulates the affections of charity, natural good, and innocence, strengthening itself by appearances of truth from the Word, and by truths, apparently from celestial love, which minister to it;