OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 1:12

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but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”

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Verse 12. Houses, and so forth Septuagint “its foundations,” ( Bible.) or the fortified country. Saint Jerome—Bosor lay towards Philadelphia, in the ancient territory of Edom. Their strong places were seized by Ozias, by the Chaldeans, and by the Machabees.

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