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And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Commentary
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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