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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Helkath-hazzurim
Field of blades, roughly. By the pool of Gibeon twelve of Joab's men and twelve of Abner's killed each other in pairs, and it set off the battle between David's side and Ish-bosheth's.
Field of blades, roughly. By the pool of Gibeon twelve of Joab's men and twelve of Abner's killed each other in pairs, and it set off the battle between David's side and Ish-bosheth's.
The site near the pool of Gibeon where twelve of Joab's men and twelve of Abner's men killed each other in mutual single combat, an episode that touched off a larger battle between the forces of David and Saul's son Ish-bosheth (2 Samuel 2:16). The name means roughly "field of daggers" or "field of sword-edges."
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- 2 Samuel 2:16
