O you inhabitant of Lachish, harness the chariot to the swift steeds: it is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
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Richard Challoner
AD 1781
It is the beginning: That is, Lachis was the first city of Juda that learned from Samaria the worship of idols, and communicated it to Jerusalem.