OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 46:8

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And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved to bring them into their inheritance, into a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Verse 8. Power. Greek “complete armour for his warfare was before the Lord, since he,” and so forth They found it was impossible to resist such weapons. Bible.—One. “Follow God,” was a maxim of the ancient sages, which they even attributed to Apollo. Josue and Caleb did so in opposition to the rebels. Numbers 14:24. Calmet.—The rest all perished, ( Worthington.) if we except those who were not 20 years old, or who did not join in the murmurs of the seditious. Bible.

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