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But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.
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Verse 47. Escape. Mercy was shewn to these, as the tribe had been already treated with sufficient severity. S. Jerom says, they were “reserved for the sake of the apostle Paul,” (epit. Paul. Menochius.) who was descended from some of them. Bible.—Remmon, near Gabaa. Zechariah 14:10. Eusebius places it fourteen miles north of Jerusalem. Calmet.
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