To stand to it; to own or maintain it, or persist in it, as this phrase is used, Deuteronomy 25:1. He caused them to engage themselves by an oath or covenant, that they would observe and obey the laws of God, as his godly predecessors had formerly done, and which indeed they were before obliged to do. They complied with God's and the king's command, as to the outward acts of God's worship, though not with an upright heart, as appears by the history.

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