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The LORD says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”
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Verse 2. Desert. From which the former inhabitants had been driven, (4 Kennicott. 17:6. 24. Calmet.) or, as those under Moses were favoured, ( Bible.) so shall the captives. Grot.—Septuagint “I found him warm,” (θερμον, means also a lupin, which has misled the old Latin interpreters. Saint Jerome) murdered “in the desert, with those slain by the sword. Go, and destroy not Israel.” Bible.
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