OLD TESTAMENT

Zechariah 12:6

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In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

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Verse 6. Furnace. Septuagint “firebrand among wood, and as a burning lamp amid straw.” Bible.—Left. The Samaritans shall fall as well as the Idumeans.—Place. The temple and city had been deserted, while the troops of Epiphanes occupied the citadel. 1 Maccabees 3:45 and 4:38.

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