distress: Judges 11:3; Matthew 11:12, Matthew 11:28
was in debt: Heb. had a creditor, Matthew 18:25-34
discontented: Heb. bitter of soul, 1 Samuel 1:10, 1 Samuel 30:6; Judges 18:25; 2 Samuel 17:8; Proverbs 31:6 *marg.
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1 Samuel 22:2
1 Samuel 22:2
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