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A Message to Ammon

49 This message is to the ·Ammonite people [L sons of Ammon; Gen. 19:30–38; Deut. 2:19; 23:3–6].

This is what the Lord says:

“Do you think that Israel has no children?
    Do you think there is no ·one to take the land when the parents die [L heir]?
If that were true, why did Molech [C the chief god of Ammon] take Gad’s [C a tribe in the north of Israel] land
    and why did Molech’s people settle in Gad’s towns [C a bitter reference to the sacrifice of children to Molech]?”
The Lord says,
“The ·time will come [L days are coming] when I will make Rabbah
    of the Ammonites [C its capital], hear the battle cry.
It will become a ·hill covered with ruins [desolate ruin],
    and the ·towns [villages; L daughters] around it will be burned with fire.
Those people ·forced [dispossessed] Israel out of that land,
    but now Israel will ·force them out [dispossess them]!” says the Lord.

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