OLD TESTAMENT

Judges 1:11

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From there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir before that was Kiriath Sepher.)

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Verse 11. The city of letters. Perhaps so called, from some famous school or library kept there. Challoner.—The explanation, that is, and so forth is added by the Vulg. Bible.—Madrid, in Arabic, means “the mother of sciences.” Menochius.

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