OLD TESTAMENT

Psalms 79:3

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They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

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Verse 3. Manasses. These three tribes followed the ark in the desert, (Numbers 2:18) and might better see the majesty shining over it. Worthington. Calmet.—Let all be united once more in the divine service. Muis.—Samaria, and Jerusalem in part, were in the tribes of Ephraim and Benjamin, ( Menochius.) and Manasses occupied both sides of the Jordan. Bible.

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