OLD TESTAMENT

Obadiah 1:11

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11

In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance and foreigners entered into his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

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Verse 11. Captive. He alludes to the taking of Sedecias.—Lots, for the booty, or whether they should burn the city or not. All was regulated by lots. Calmet.

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