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Thus the disease became permanent; the law was in the people's heart along with the evil root, but what was good departed, and the evil remained.
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So the times passed and the years were completed, and thou didst raise up for thyself a servant, named David.
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And thou didst command him to build a city for thy name, and in it to offer thee oblations from what is thine.
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This was done for many years; but the inhabitants of the city transgressed,
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in everything doing as Adam and all his descendants had done, for they also had the evil heart.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.