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2 Samuel 16:1

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little past: 2 Samuel 15:30, 2 Samuel 15:32

with a couple: 2 Samuel 17:27-29, 2 Samuel 19:32; 1 Samuel 17:17-18, 1 Samuel 25:18; 1 Chronicles 12:40; Proverbs 18:16, Proverbs 29:4-5

summer: These were probably pumpkins, cucumbers, or water-melons; the two latter being extensively used in the East to refresh travellers in the burning heat of the summer; and probably, as Mr. Harmer supposes, called summer fruits on this very account. Jeremiah 40:10, Jeremiah 40:12; Amos 8:1; Micah 7:1

a bottle: 1 Samuel 10:3, 1 Samuel 16:20

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