“So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.””
1 Kings 8:61
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Connection with Jacob meets Esau
Uncut stones are avanim shelemot, whole stones that no iron tool had touched. Solomon later told the people, "let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God" (1 Kings 8:61), and fully devoted is shalem again, a whole heart. Jacob had been limping when he passed Penuel at sunrise (Genesis 32:31), and in God's word for it he was whole when he reached Shechem.
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