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1 Samuel 28:4

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

And the Philistines gathered themselves together,.... From different parts, and formed a considerable army:and came and pitched in Shunem; a city, in the borders of the tribe of Issachar, of which See Gill on "Jos 19:18";and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa; a range of mountains, near Jezreel, and which Jerom calls the mountains of the Philistines, six miles from Scythopolis, where there is a large village called Gelbus.

De loc. Heb fol. 92.

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