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For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.
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Verse 8. Rasin. Both the king and his capital shall be ruined.—And five. Capellus (p. 497.) would read six and five; or, in eleven years time. But ( Calmet.) Ephraim was led captive twenty-one years after, and the Cutheans took their place when sixty-five years had elapsed. A. 3327. Usher—Most people date from the prophecy of Amos to the ruin of Samaria, just sixty-five years. The former solution seems preferable. Calmet.
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