OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 4:8

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8

These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

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Verse 8. Benhur. Ben here, and in the following verses, may signify “the son of Hur,” and so forth Calmet.—Septuagint retain both the original term, and its explanation, “Ben the son of Or.” But they afterwards read only “the son of Dakar … of Esed … of Abinadab … and Gaber.”

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