sent messengers: Genesis 39:7; Job 31:9-11; Psalms 50:18
he lay: Psalms 51:1 *title James 1:14-15
she was: etc. or, and when she had purified herself, etc. she returned. Proverbs 30:20
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2 Samuel 11:4
2 Samuel 11:4
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