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I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,” says the LORD.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 5. Plain. The city “Bikhath—Aven,” or the latter word, probably denotes Baal, as the Syrians style Baal-Bek, the city which the Greeks call Heliopolis. The valley between the two mountains extending northward, is still called Bucca.—Pleasure. Hebrew “Beth Heden.” We find Eden in a delightful part of Libanus.—Cyrene, not in Africa, but on the river Cyrus, in Albania. 4 Kennicott. 15:29.
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