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Amos ( 750 BC ) says the following in this regard:
I (God) will bring my exiled people of Israel back from distant lands .. and they will rebuild their ruined cities and live in them again ..
They will plant vineyards and gardens .. they will eat their crops and drink their wine .. I will firmly plant them there in their own land ..
They will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them" .. says the Lord your God
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Zechariah 12:2-4 (520-470 BC) says the following in this regard:
I (God) am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling .. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem ..
On that day .. when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her .. I (God) will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations ..
All who try to move it will injure themselves . . . Zechariah 12:2-4 (520-470 BC)
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