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2 Samuel 1:21

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mountains: 1 Samuel 31:1; 1 Chronicles 10:1, 1 Chronicles 10:8

no dew: Judges 5:23; Job 3:3-10; Isaiah 5:6; Jeremiah 20:14-16

not: Instead of belee:, "not," we should probably, with Dr. Delaney and others, read keley:, "weapons," as it is found on one manuscript and in the first edition of the Hebrew Bible, printed at Soncini, 1488: "the shield of Saul; the weapons of the anointed with oil."

anointed: 1 Samuel 10:1; Isaiah 21:5

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