groves and graven images, before he was humbled R.V. the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself.

among the sayings of the seers Render, in the history of his seers; cp. R.V. mg. and LXX., slightly emending the Hebrew text. To take the Heb. word (ḥôzai) as a proper name (so R.V.) is unsuitable, since the same word occurs as a common noun ("seers") in the preceding verse.

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