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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 3:4

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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3:4 Conditions would be so severe that boys and toddlers would qualify as candidates for office. By this, Isaiah either meant that adult leaders would be so decimated that only children would be left alive to assume the role or simply that the new leaders would be as immature, unwise, strong willed, and inexperienced as children.
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