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Matthew Poole was one of the most influential Puritan ministers and thinkers of the seventeenth century. A Protestant clergyman in England during a time of religious persecution, he fled the country due to threats of assassination. Poole was known as a devoted Christian, full of integrity and perseverance, in addition to being a great theologian and writer. His commentary series has been a...

Jerusalem. And bJoab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it. Of this first verse, see my notes on 2 Sam. 11:1; and of ver. 2, 3, on 2 Sam. 12:30, 31; and of the rest of this chapter, on 2 Sam. 21:15, &c., where also an account is given of the seeming differences between this and that relation. 2 *And David ctook the crown of their king from off his head, and found it †to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David’s head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil
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