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2 Samuel 20:19

2 Samuel 20:19

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peaceable: Genesis 18:23; Romans 13:3-4; 1 Timothy 2:2

a mother: Judges 5:7; Ezekiel 16:45-49

swallow: 2 Samuel 17:16; Numbers 16:32, Numbers 26:10; Psalms 124:3; Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:44; Lamentations 2:2, Lamentations 2:5, Lamentations 2:16; 1 Corinthians 15:54; 2 Corinthians 5:4

the inheritance: 2 Samuel 21:3; Exodus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 32:9; 1 Samuel 26:19

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