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<03212> [they went.]

This expedition of the Simeonites took place in the days of Hezekiah, and, as Calmet conjectures, near the time of the captivity of the ten tribes; when the remnant of Simeon would feel themselves obliged to retire more southward into Arabia Petr‘a, for fear of the Jews, and to seek pasture for their flocks.

Gedor(TB/TL) <01446> [Gedor.]

[Geder.]

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arah Gedor

Yos 15:58; [Lihat FULL. Yos 15:58]

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pergi(TB)/turun(TL) <03381> [because they came.]

Or rather, "when [kÅ’y <\\See definition 03588\\>] {(kee)} they came down to take away their cattle;" for it does not appear that the sons of Ephraim were the aggressors, but the men of Gath, who appear to have been born in Egypt. This is the only place in the Sacred Writings where this piece of history is mentioned, and the transaction seems to have happened before the Israelites came out of Egypt; for it appears from the following verse, that Ephraim was alive when these children of his were slain.