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His banished - The use of the word, as applied to one of God’s people driven into a pagan land, is well illustrated by Deuteronomy 30:4-5,[R…

We must needs die. — The woman now proceeds to a further argument based on the uncertainty of life. Whether she meant to suggest the possi…

For we must needs die
As all must, she herself, the king, and his sons, and indeed all men; this is the common case and lot of…

We may notice here, how this widow pleads God's mercy and His clemency toward poor, guilty sinners. The state of sinners is a state of banishment f…
Albert Barnes
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