Arumah: This place appears from the next verse to have been near Shechem; and is perhaps the same as Ruma, a village of Galilee, mentioned by Josephus, Bell. 1. iii. c. 7.
Zebul: Judges 9:28, Judges 9:30
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Judges 9:41
Judges 9:41
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