Assur] RV 'Assyria.' This empire did not come into close contact with Israel till after the time of Jehoshaphat. After the fall of Assyria the name was used generally for the region of the East, even under the Persian kings (Ezra 6:22). The children of Lot] the Moabites and Ammonites (Genesis 19:36) already mentioned, and apparently the leaders of the hostile combination.

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