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Joshua 6:26

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adjured: This is to be regarded as a prediction, that he who rebuilded this city should lose all his children in the interim between the laying of the foundation to the completion of the walls. Numbers 5:19-21; 1 Samuel 14:24-46; 1 Kings 22:16; Matthew 26:63; Acts 19:13

Cursed: 1 Kings 16:34; Malachi 1:4

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