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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Samuel 20:18

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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20:18-19 The woman told a saying to convince Joab not to slaughter an entire city, especially such a noble city as Abel (a shortened form of Abel-beth-maacah, 20:15), just to capture one criminal. • an important town in Israel (literally a town that is a mother in Israel): It was common to refer to outlying villages around a larger city as its “daughters.”
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