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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Isaiah 10:26

And the LORD of hosts shall raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of (t) Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the (u) sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

(t) Read (Isaiah 9:4).

(u) When the Israelites passed through by the lifting up of Moses' rod, and the enemies were drowned, (Exodus 14:28).

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