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Nehemiah 3:7

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the Gibeonite: Joshua 9:3-27; 2 Samuel 21:2

Mizpah: Nehemiah 3:19; 2 Chronicles 16:6

the throne: That is, probably, the palace of the Persian governor, west of the Euphrates; the term throne being used to signify any royal abode. For Sir J. Chardin, describing a splendid tent erected by the king of Persia, says "that there was an inscription wrought upon the cornice of the anti-chamber, which gave it the appellation of the throne of the second Solomon." Sitting upon a throne has, however, sometimes been granted to governors. Nehemiah 2:8

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