But Abram said, “Lord God, what can you give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” [a]

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Footnotes

  1. 15:2 Hb obscure

24 and gathered men to himself. He became leader of a raiding party when David killed the Zobaites. He[a] went to Damascus,(A) lived there, and became king in Damascus.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:24 LXX; Hb reads They

Your neck is like a tower of ivory,(A)
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by Bath-rabbim’s gate.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.

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The chief city of Aram is Damascus,
the chief of Damascus is Rezin
(within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),

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Judgment on Israel’s Neighbors

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Damascus(A)
for three crimes, even four,(B)
because they threshed Gilead with iron sledges.

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