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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Amos 1:6

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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1:6 The Philistine city of Gaza, on the seacoast at the southwest edge of Palestine, was the gateway for traffic between Africa and Asia. Its sin was slave trading; Philistia had raided Israel or Judah and sold whole villages into slavery to Edom.
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