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Ezekiel 7:21

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21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.

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Poverty

  

'Poverty' signifies a defect of one's knowledges of truth and good.

(References: Apocalypse Explained 238)

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Judges 8:27

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27 And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ephra. And all Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gedeon and to all his house.