32And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
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Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-36)Having given an account of the principal persons that dwelt in Jerusalem (a larger account of whom he had before, 1 Chron. 9:2-34), Nehemiah, in these verses, gives us some account of the other cities, in which dwelt the residue of Israel , Neh. 11:20. It was requisite that Jerusalem should be replenished, yet not so as to drain the country. The king himself is served of the field , which will do…
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