Moab: 2 Samuel 8:2; 1 Chronicles 18:1-2
triumph: or, triumph thou over me (by an irony), Psalms 108:9-10; 2 Samuel 5:17-25, 2 Samuel 8:1, 2 Samuel 21:15-22
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Psalms 60:8
Psalms 60:8
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