Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Countries. They had fled to avoid the taxes, but found no redress, Lamentations i. 3.