OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 1:8

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He said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’

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Verse 8. Amalecite. The Rabbins say he was the son of Doeg; and has this appellation because Amalec sprung from Esau. Genesis 36:12. But this is all very uncertain. The man seems to have gotten possession of the marks of the royal dignity in the night, as the Philistines deferred till the next day stripping the bodies of the deceased. Calmet.

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