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The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they carried away captive the whole community, to deliver them up to Edom;
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Verse 6. Edom. the Philistines and Tyrians (verse 9) exercised this inhumanity on the Idomeans, probably before they had thrown off the yoke of Juda, under Joram, (4 Kennicott. 8:21) as the Lord seems concerned for them; ( Calmet.) or they sold the captive Israelites to Edom, to increase their misery. Saint Jerome—Septuagint “the captivity of Solomon,” or the subjects of that monarch. But the Hebrew word means also perfect, ( Bible.) or absolute, (Jeremiah 13:19. Calmet.) or “pacific,” seizing the citizens in times of peace. Bible.
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