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1 Chronicles 4:39

1 Chronicles 4:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

they went: This expedition of the Simeonites took place in the days of Hezekiah, and, as Calmet conjectures, near the time of the captivity of the ten tribes; when the remnant of Simeon would feel themselves obliged to retire more southward into Arabia Petrea, for fear of the Jews, and to seek pasture for their flocks.

Gedor: , ; , Geder,

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