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Rengan

RENGAN, a Place where the Philistines encamped,1 when they came to attack Saul, in the last Battle, wherein he died. It is probable that Rengan is a Fault of the Copy, and that in Josephus it ought to be read Sunam or Shunem, instead of Rengan.2

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  1. Joseph. Antiq. l. 6. c. 14. p. 203. Ῥεγγάν. Confer. 1 Reg. xxviii. 4. Sunam. ↩

  2. Amos v. 26. כיוןKion. 70. Τὸ ἄστρον τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑμῶν Ῥαιφάν. ↩

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