Thus has the Lord GOD showed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part of the land.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Part of the land, if the prophet had not interposed; (ver. 6.; Calmet) or rather civil wars desolated a great part of the kingdom, before the Lord was appeased. (Haydock)
The fire foreshewed the captivity of the two tribes, 4 Kings xxiv. (Worthington)
