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SHOBI, or Sobi, Son of Nahash, of the City of Rabbah, otherwise call’d Philadelphia. He came with Barzillai to meet David when he fled from Absalom, and brought him Refreshments1.
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2 Sam. xvii. 27. In the Year of the World 2981, before Christ 1019, before the vulgar Era 1023. ↩
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