four hundred: Judges 20:2; Numbers 1:46, Numbers 26:51; 1 Samuel 11:8, 1 Samuel 15:4; 1 Chronicles 21:5; 2 Chronicles 17:14-18
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Judges 20:17
Judges 20:17
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