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The LORD of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.
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Verse 33. Israel. Samaria had been destroyed forty-four years before the fourth of Joakim, from which period many of Juda had been captives seventy years, till Cyrus became their deliverer, and chastised the Chaldees. Calmet.—Both kingdoms had been oppressed by a strong hand, till a stronger, even God himself, delivered them. Worthington.
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