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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Isaiah 27:12

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Restoration of the Jews from their dispersion, described under the image of fruits shaken from trees and collected. beat off--as fruit beaten off a tree with a stick (Deu 24:20), and then gathered. river--Euphrates. stream of Egypt--on the confines of Palestine and Egypt (Num 34:5; Jos 15:4, Jos 15:47), now Wady-el-Arish, Jehovah's vineyard, Israel, extended according to His purpose from the Nile to the Euphrates (Kg1 4:21, Kg1 4:24; Psa 72:8). one by one--gathered most carefully, not merely as a nation, but as individuals.
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