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Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls
And anoint themselves with the finest oils [reflecting their unrestrained celebration];
Yet they are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph (Israel).
Hezekiah listened to and welcomed them and [foolishly] showed them all his treasure house—the silver and gold and spices and precious oil and his armory and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house (palace) nor in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.
Then Mary took a pound of very expensive perfume of pure nard, and she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and [the money] given to the poor?”
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- Admiration
- Adoration, Of Christ
- Anointed By People
- Anointing Oneself
- Anointing With Oil
- Anointing, Social Custom
- Armory
- Denarius
- Drinking Wine
- Expensive
- Feeding The Poor
- Feet
- Fragrance
- Giving To The Poor
- Gold
- Guests
- Hair
- Hairs
- Herbs And Spices
- Money, Uses Of
- Not Mourning
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- Pride, Origin
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- Taking Mixed Metals
- Things Revealed
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- Wages
- Weights Of Other Things
- Worth
- Credibility