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1 Chronicles 12:8

1 Chronicles 12:8

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

into the hold: 1 Chronicles 12:16, 1 Chronicles 11:16; 1 Samuel 23:14, 1 Samuel 23:29, 1 Samuel 24:22

of war: Heb. of the host

handle: 2 Chronicles 25:5; Jeremiah 46:9

whose faces: 1 Chronicles 11:22; 2 Samuel 1:23, 2 Samuel 17:10, 2 Samuel 23:20; Proverbs 28:1

as swift as the roes upon the mountains: Heb. as the roes upon the mountains to make haste, 2 Samuel 2:18; Proverbs 6:5; Song of Solomon 8:14

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