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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on 2 Samuel 18:17

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit . . . and laid a very great heap of stones upon him--The people of the East indicate their detestation of the memory of an infamous person by throwing stones at the place where he is buried. The heap is increased by the gradual accumulation of stones which passers-by add to it.
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