OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 49:3

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“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourself in sackcloth. Lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

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Verse 3. Hai, or Je-abarim. Both these cities pertained also to Moab.—Hedges. Hebrew Gederoth, may be the city Gadara.—Melchom, or Moloc, who claimed dominion over this people. If they had used their reason, they must have seen that he was no god, since the Lord disposed of him as he pleased so long before.

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