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1 Samuel 23:29

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And David went up from thence,.... From the wilderness of Maon, having had a narrow escape for his life:and dwelt in strong holds in Engedi; another place in the tribe of Judah, and which lay in the wilderness of Judah, and from whence that is called the wilderness of Engedi; and here Dr.

Lightfoot thinks he penned the sixty third psalm, Ps 63:1, the wilderness about Engedi being the most desert of all other places, that being upon the borders of the dead sea; of this place, See Gill on "Jos 15:62".

Works, vol. 1. p. 58.

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