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Now Jerusalem lay void as a wilderness; there was none of her children that went in or out. The sanctuary also was trodden down, and aliens kept the stronghold. The heathen had their habitation in that place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe with the harp ceased.
46
Therefore the Israelites assembled themselves together and came to Mizpah, opposite Jerusalem; for in Mizpah was the place where they prayed in former time in Israel.
47
Then they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth and cast ashes upon their heads and rent their clothes,
48
and laid open the Book of the Law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.
49
They brought also the priests' garments, and the firstfruits and the tithes; and the Nazirites they stirred up, who had accomplished their days.
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