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Verse 34

The cities: 1 Kings 15:20, 2 Chronicles 16:4

So he made a covenant: One of the conditions of this covenant, we learn, was, that Ahab should have "streets (chutzoth) in Damascus;" a proposal better relished by Ahab then understood by the generality of commentators. This, however, is well illustrated by Mr. Harmer, from William of Tyre, the great historian of the Crusades; from whom it appears that it was customary to give those nations which were engaged in them, churches, streets, and great jurisdiction therein, in those places which they assisted to conquer. The Genoese and Venetians had each a street in Acon, or Acre, in which they had their own jurisdiction, with liberty to have an oven, mill, baths, weights, and measures, etc. 1 Kings 20:42, 1 Kings 22:31, 2 Chronicles 18:30, Isaiah 8:12, Isaiah 26:10

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 11:1 - Make 1 Samuel 15:8 - Agag 1 Kings 11:24 - to Damascus 1 Kings 15:18 - Benhadad 1 Kings 22:1 - General 2 Kings 6:8 - the king 2 Kings 8:7 - Benhadad Amos 3:12 - in Damascus in a couch

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