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1 Samuel 30:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

on the third: This was the third day after he had left the Philistine army at Aphek, from which place, Calmet supposes, Ziklag was distant more than thirty leagues.

the Amalekites: 1 Samuel 15:7, 1 Samuel 27:8-10; Genesis 24:62; Joshua 11:6

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