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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on 2 Kings 15:16

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Menahem . . . smote Tiphsah--Thapsacus, on the Euphrates, the border city of Solomon's kingdom (Kg1 4:24). The inhabitants refusing to open their gates to him, Menahem took it by storm. Then having spoiled it, he committed the most barbarous excesses, without regard either to age or sex.
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