In that day will I make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in sheaves; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Furnace. Septuagint, "firebrand among wood, and as a burning lamp amid straw. "(Haydock)
Left. The Samaritans shall fall as well as the Idumeans.
Place. The temple and city had been deserted, while the troops of Epiphanes occupied the citadel, 1 Machabees iii. 45., and iv. 38.