OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 11:5

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“They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.

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Verse 5. Egypt. Many went, contrary to this prohibition. Bible.—Yet they did not prosper, as they expected. The Hebrews had also often murmured in the desert, and threatened to return to Egypt.

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