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Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all who were with him, knew it; and they fled into the wilderness of Tekoah, and encamped by the water of the pool of Asphar.
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Verse 33. Thecua, seven miles south of Bethlehem. Saint Jerome pref. in Amos.—Asphar, or “asphaltite lake” (Gorion) of Sodom; so called on account of the bitumen, or asphalte. Calmet.
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