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Then some came who told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea from Syria. Behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar” (that is, En Gedi).
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Sea of Sodom, ( Bible.) or the Red Sea. D.—Syria, which comprised the country of Ammon. Menochius.—Perhaps Edom might rather have been in the text, as we find no Syrians in this war, but many of the Idumeans. Calmet.—Adom and Arom, (Syria. Bible.) have often been confounded. 4 Kennicott. 16:6. Calmet.—Asasonthamar, “the palm-tree cottage,” (Bochart) between Jericho and the Dead Sea.
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