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She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
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Verse 5. Name. Hebrew “she dwelt (or sat to judge) under the palm-tree of Debbora.” “The oak of weeping,” allon Bachuth, under which Debbora, the nurse of Rebecca, was interred, was also near Bethel. Genesis 35:8. Bible.—This city was on the confines of the tribes of Ephraim and of Benjamin, over which Debbora chiefly exercised her authority; and here she was consulted by the people. Calmet.
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