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For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
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Verse 1. Prolonged. Babylon was taken one hundred and seventy-two years after. Calmet.—Yet this time is counted short, compared with the monarchy, which had lasted a thousand years. Worthington.—Ground. Cyrus restored the Jews; yet all did not return at that time.—Stranger. Converts. Esther 8:17. All Idumea received circumcision under Hyrcan.
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