OLD TESTAMENT

Obadiah 1:20

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The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

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Verse 20. Sarepta. This was accomplished after the persecution of Epiphanes.—Bosphorus. So S. Jerom’s master interpreted Bispharad. But it seems rather to mean a part of Mesopotamia. Sippara stands above, where the Euphrates divides its streams.

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