46
Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom with her daughters.
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Verse 46. Right: southward.—Sodom. The city was more ancient than Jerusalem. Hence it here designates Ruben, ( Bible.) and the Jews east of the Jordan; (Prado) or rather Moab and Ammon, (verse 55. Calmet.) and the rest of the Gentiles. Bible.—Samaria shewed Jerusalem the road to idolatry, and therefore is called her elder sister. The number of the ten tribes was also greater than that of the kingdom of Juda, which became corrupt as Sodom, only by degrees. Theod.
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