OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 6:1

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“Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.

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Verse 1. Strengthen. Hebrew also, “Flee, Benjamites, from the midst,” and so forth Jerusalem belonged partly to this tribe, which prided itself on its valour.—Thecua was in the lot of Juda, 15 miles south of Jerusalem.—North. The Chaldees approach. Calmet. 1:13. Calmet.

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