OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 39:16

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Hamonah will also be the name of a city. Thus they will cleanse the land.”’

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Verse 16. Amona. Hebrew hamon, ( Bible.) means “a multitude.” Calmet.—Septuagint “a place for many graves:” πολυανδριον. Bible.—So many would be buried there, that the place might justly receive such a name; though we find no such city in the neighbourhood. Calmet.—Rabbath, of Ammon, was sometimes so called. Bible.

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