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desolation

Meaning of “desolation”

Devastation or ruin; the state or result of being laid waste, emptied, or left without inhabitants.

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First occurrence: Leviticus 26:31

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2 Chronicles 30:7

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And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

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And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gaue them vp to desolation, as ye see.

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Leviticus 26:31 Joshua 8:24-28 Job 30:14 Isaiah 17:9 Jeremiah 22:5 Jeremiah 44:22 Jeremiah 34:22 Jeremiah 44:2 Joshua 8:24 Joshua 8:26 Joshua 8:28 Isaiah 61:4 Psalms 73:18 Psalms 73:19 Isaiah 51:19 Jeremiah 51:43 Joel 3:19 Zephaniah 2:14 Luke 21:20