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1 Samuel 15:6

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the Kenites: 1 Samuel 27:10; Numbers 24:21-22; Judges 1:16, Judges 4:11, Judges 5:24; 1 Chronicles 2:55

depart: Genesis 18:25, Genesis 19:12-16; Numbers 16:26-27, Numbers 16:34; Proverbs 9:6; Acts 2:40; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:14

ye showed: Exodus 18:9-10, Exodus 18:19; Numbers 10:29-32; 2 Timothy 1:16

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