They be gone: 2 Samuel 15:34; Exodus 1:19; Joshua 2:4-5; 1 Samuel 19:14-17, 1 Samuel 21:2, 1 Samuel 27:11-12
when they had sought: Joshua 2:22-23
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2 Samuel 17:20
2 Samuel 17:20
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