OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 18:24

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Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

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Verse 24. Two gates, one leading into the town, the other into the country. In the middle was a chamber for public meetings, and another above. Job 29:7. On the roof a guard was stationed on this occasion.

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