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Selected Verse: 2 Samuel 13:17 - King James

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2Sa 13:17 King James Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
bolt the door after her--The street door of houses in the East is always kept barred--the bolts being of wood. In the great mansions, where a porter stands at the outside, this precaution is dispensed with; and the circumstance, therefore, of a prince giving an order so unusual shows the vehement perturbation of Ammon's mind.
 
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