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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on 2 Samuel 16:2

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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The asses be for the king's household to ride on--The royal fugitives were moving on foot, not from inability to procure conveyances, but as being suitable to their present state of humiliation and penitence.
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