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Oracle

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: O By: James P. Boyd

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(speaking). In O. T. sense, the holy place whence God declared his will (1 Kings 6:5; 8:6⁵And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about: (1 Kings 6:5)
⁶And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. (1 Kings 8:6)). Divine revelation (Acts 7:38³⁸This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: (Acts 7:38); Rom. 3:2²Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. (Romans 3:2)).

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