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x.xxiii.xxxvii-p16.2

x.xxiii.xxxvii-p16.243 words

10. A boastful inference from the past successes of Assyria, designed to influence the Jews to surrender; their own principles bound them to yield to Jehovah's will. He may have heard from partisans in Judah what Isaiah had foretold (Isa 10:5, 6).