OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 11:14

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They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.

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Verse 14. Shoulders. Or confines. Ezekiel 25:9. Ezechias and the Machabees attacked the Philistines. Calmet.—Septuagint “and they shall fly on the ships of the strangers; they shall plunder the sea together, and those on the east, and Idumea.” Bible.—East. Ammonites, and so forth often defeated by the Machabees, and probably by Ezechias.

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