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Shebarim

SHEBARIM, or Sabarim, a Place about Ai and Bethel. The Inhabitants of Ai pursu’d the Israelites from the Gate of their City as far as Shebarim1. Some2 take Shebarim in an Appellative Sense. They pursu’d them ‘till they had intirely routed them.

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  1. Josh. vii. 5. עד השברים ↩

  2. LXX. Ἕως συντελέσαι αὐτούς. you elsewhere, O mighty Man, powerful Warrior, &c. ↩

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Shebarim,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/s/shebarim/.

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