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1 Chronicles 26:8

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

All these of the sons of Obededom,.... And grandsons:they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service; men of fortitude of mind and strength of body, as before observed: weresixty two of Obededom: that sprung from him, which the Jews account for in an extravagant manner, as the effect of miraculous births.

T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 63. 2. & 64.

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