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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 36:19

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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36:19 The populations of Hamath and Arpad had been relocated to Samaria, where the new local deities were the gods of Sepharvaim (2 Kgs 17:24). The logic of the argument made sense to an Assyrian. If the Assyrian gods defeated all the gods of the other nations and the God of the Israelite nation of Samaria, would they not also defeat the God of Judah?
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