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I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

20:19 peaceable and faithful. The citizens of Abel were not sympathetic with Sheba’s rebellion and did not want their city destroyed on his account. Their leader was a capable woman, whose followers then beheaded Sheba, thus saving the city.


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