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Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, “I see a company.” Joram said, “Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”
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Verse 17. Watchman. Such were very common, (2 Kennicott. 18:24. 1 Maccabees 12:26) and as the army was at Ramoth, the attention of the people would be drawn that way. Calmet.—Troop. Septuagint “the dust of the,” and so forth Menochius.
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