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Isaiah 17:1

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Damascus: Isaiah 7:8; Genesis 14:15, Genesis 15:2; 1 Kings 11:24; 1 Chronicles 18:5; 2 Chronicles 28:5, 2 Chronicles 28:23; Jeremiah 49:23-27; Amos 1:3-5; Zechariah 9:1; Acts 9:2

Damascus is: Isaiah 8:4, Isaiah 10:9; 2 Kings 16:9

a ruinous: Isaiah 25:2, Isaiah 37:26; Jeremiah 49:2; Micah 1:6, Micah 3:12

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