Becometh. — Instead of this translation, it is better to render, in his kingdom he was even poor; but there is ambiguity in the Hebrew, as in the English, whether the antecedent of the “his” and the “he” is the old king or the new one.
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Ecclesiastes 4:14
14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.