Remove. — Kings has a less common expression, “cause to wander.”

From out of (upon) the land (ground) which I have appointed. — Kings, with which the versions agree, has the certainly original “from the ground which I gave.”

So that.If only.

And the statutes and the ordinances. — An explanatory addition. Kings has, “And according to all the Torah that Moses my servant commanded them.”

By the hand. — By the ministry or instrumentality. The phrase is a characteristic interpretation of what we read in 2 Kings 21:8; for it carefully notes that the authority of the Lawgiver was not primary but derived.

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