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Jeremiah 41:8

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Slay: Job 2:4; Psalms 49:6-8; Proverbs 13:8; Matthew 6:25, Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36-37; Philippians 3:7-9

treasures: These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the mattamores: in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.

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