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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Isaiah 15:7

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Therefore--because of the devastation of the land. abundance--literally, "that which is over and above" the necessaries of life. brook of . . . willows--The fugitives flee from Nimrim, where the waters have failed, to places better watered. Margin has "valley of Arabians"; that is, to the valley on the boundary between them and Arabia-PetrÃ&brvbra; now Wady-el Arabah. "Arabia" means a "desert."
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