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So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and to the nobles who were in his city, who lived with Naboth.
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Verse 8. Chief men. Hebrew chorim, “those in white,” the usual colour of magistrates and noblemen. Eccle. 9:8. Daniel 7:9. The angels generally appear arrayed in white. Among the Egyptians and the Greeks, the rich were remarkable for the whiteness of their robes. Herod. ii. 36. Odys. z.
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