Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 1 Samuel 25:2

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Maon: Sa1 23:24 possessions were: or, business was Carmel: Not the famous mount Carmel, in the north of Canaan, and in the tribe of Asher; but a city, on a mountain of the same name, in the south of Judah, which seems to have given name to the surrounding territory. Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that there was in their time a town called Carmelia, ten miles east from Hebron, where the Romans kept a garrison, whose position well agrees with this Carmel. man: Gen 26:13; Sa2 19:32; Psa 17:14, Psa 73:3-7; Luk 16:19-25 three thousand: Gen 13:2; Job 1:3, Job 42:12 shearing: This was a very ancient custom, and appears to have been always attended with festivity. The ancient Romans, however, used to pluck off the wool from the sheep's backs; and hence a fleece was called vellus, a vellendo, from plucking it off. Pliny says, that in his time sheep were not shorn every where, but in some places the wool was still plucked off. Gen 38:13; Sa2 13:23, Sa2 13:24 Carmel: Sa1 30:5; Jos 15:55 1 Kings (1 Samuel) 25:3

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