OLD TESTAMENT

Judges 9:48

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48

Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”

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Verse 48. Selmon. This mountain lay towards the Jordan, and was covered with trees and snow. Psalms 67:16. Menochius.—Bough. Septuagint “a burden or faggot of sticks.” Josephus observes that they were dry. Calmet.

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