Deuteronomy 1:12

How. See note on Lamentations 1:1. cumbrance. Hebrew. torah, only here and Isaiah 1:14 (trouble).

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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