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Markdown
19 lines
512 B
Markdown
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## They went out at night from the city by king's garden path ##
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"They left the city at night going out on a path in the kings's garden"
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## the plains of the Jordan River valley ##
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This is the flat land at the southern end of the valley.
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## at Riblah in the land of Hamath ##
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Riblah was a town in the territory of Hamath. They are in Syria. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]])
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## pursued them and overtook ##
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"followed and caught"
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## passed sentence on him ##
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"decided how to punish him"
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