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Hosea 5:2

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The rebels are deep in slaughter, but I discipline all of them.

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Verse 2. Depth, or pits of fire, where victims were sometimes thrown. Iphigen. Grot.—By substituting th for t, we might read, “they have dug pits to take them.” Calmet. 9:9. Joshua 23:13. Calmet.—Idolatry leads to the abyss. Bible.

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