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Ahuzzath

AHUZZATH, the Friend of Abimelech, King of Gerar, who came with this Prince and Phichol the General of his Army, in order to make an alliance with Genes. xxiv. 26. In the Year of the World 2200. before J. C. 1800. before the vulg. Æra 1804.Isaac. Several Interpreters, following the Chaldee and St. Jerom °, take Ahuzzath in an appellative sense, for a company of Friends which attended Abimelech. The Septuagint call him Ahuzzath the Brideman.

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