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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Besor

A brook in southern Judah. Two hundred of David's men were too worn out to cross it and stayed behind while the rest chased the Amalekite raiders. David then insisted that the men who stayed with the supplies share the spoil equally.

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A brook in southern Judah. Two hundred of David's men were too worn out to cross it and stayed behind while the rest chased the Amalekite raiders. David then insisted that the men who stayed with the supplies share the spoil equally.

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The Besor was a brook in southern Judah where two hundred of David's exhausted men stayed behind while the rest pursued Amalekite raiders, and David's insistence afterward that those who stayed with the supplies share equally in the plunder became a standing rule in Israel.

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The word

H1308

Where it appears
  • 1 Samuel 30:9
  • 1 Samuel 30:10
  • 1 Samuel 30:21

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