OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 5:10

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The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.

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Verse 10. Bound. This was a capital crime, under Numa, and forbidden. Deuteronomy 19:14. Calmet.—Juda hoped to seize what was abandoned. Saint Jerome—They deferred doing penance, and removed the boundaries set by their fathers, (Theod. Calmet.) the virtuous patriarchs, whom they would not imitate.

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