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Ezekiel 5:12

Ezekiel 5:12

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third part of: Ezekiel 5:2, Ezekiel 6:12; Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 21:9; Zechariah 13:7-9

and I will scatter: Ezekiel 5:2, Ezekiel 5:10, Ezekiel 6:8; Jeremiah 9:16; Zechariah 7:14

and I will draw: This was particularly fulfilled in the destruction of those who retired to Egypt; and has been remarkably verified in the many persecutions and miseries which the Jews have suffered at different times, in the various countries into which they are dispersed. Ezekiel 5:2, Ezekiel 12:14; Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy 28:65; Jeremiah 42:16-17, Jeremiah 42:22, Jeremiah 43:10-11, Jeremiah 44:27; Amos 9:4

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