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And they put therein a sinful nation, wicked men, and fortified themselves therein.
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They stored it also with arms and victuals; and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and so they became an evil snare.
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For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel.
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Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary and defiled it,
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insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them, whereupon the city was made a habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.
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