a seer: 2 Samuel 24:11; 1 Samuel 9:9; 1 Chronicles 25:5
return: 2 Samuel 15:34, 2 Samuel 15:36, 2 Samuel 17:17
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2 Samuel 15:27
2 Samuel 15:27
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