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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 8:13

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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8:13 a nobody like me: Literally a dog. As scavengers, dogs were held in low esteem in the ancient Near East. King Shalmaneser III of Assyria observed in his annals, “Hazael, son of a nobody, seized the throne.”
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