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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on 2 Chronicles 20:16

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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they come up by the cliff of Ziz--This seems to have been nothing else than the present pass which leads northwards, by an ascent from En-gedi to Jerusalem, issuing a little below Tekoa. The wilderness of Jeruel was probably the large flat district adjoining the desert of Tekoa, called El-Husasah, from a wady on its northern side [ROBINSON].
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