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- He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.
- Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.
- He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
- But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
- Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
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- They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
- When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.
- He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.
- He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
- He gave his people over to the sword; he was very angry with his inheritance.
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- Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs;
- their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.
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