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Numbers 24:24

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Chittim: Genesis 10:4; Isaiah 23:1; Daniel 7:19-20, Daniel 8:5-8, Daniel 8:21, Daniel 10:20, Daniel 11:30

and shall afflict Eber: Genesis 10:21-25, Genesis 14:13; Daniel 9:26-27; Matthew 24:15; Luke 20:24, Luke 23:29-31; John 11:48

and he also: Daniel 2:35, Daniel 2:45, Daniel 7:23-26, Daniel 11:45; Revelation 18:2-24

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