OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 11:8

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“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

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Verse 8. Adama, and so forth Adama and Seboim were two cities in the neighbourhood of Sodom, and underwent the like destruction. Challoner.—God punishes, like a father, with regret.

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