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1 Kings 22:3

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

(And the king of Israel said unto his servants,.... His nobles, those of his privy council, his ministers of state; or "had said" , some little time before Jehoshaphat came:know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours a city of refuge beyond Jordan, in the tribe of Gad, and so of course must belong to the kingdom of Israel, of which see Jos 20:8and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?

) neither demand it, nor take any measures to oblige him to deliver it up; representing it as a great omission, and as a piece of negligence and slothfulness, or cowardice.

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