OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 10:15

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in addition to that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mixed people, and of the governors of the country.

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Verse 15. Merchants: wholesale. Menochius.—Arabia, the desert, which was peopled by various nations. Arab means, “a mixture, or assemblage,” as well as “the night, and a fruitless country.” Septuagint seem to have read abor, “all the kings of the other side” the Euphrates, who were also called Arabs. See Calmet. 4:24.—Country around Judea, comprising the Phylarchs of Arabia, (Genesis 17:20) and the Philistine Satraps.

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