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Lexicon :: Strong's H517 - 'ēm

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אֵם
Transliteration
'ēm
Pronunciation
ame
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive word
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TWOT Reference: 115a

Strong’s Definitions

אֵם ʼêm, ame; a primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father]):—dam, mother, × parting.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 220x

The KJV translates Strong's H517 in the following manner: mother (214x), dam (5x), parting (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 220x
The KJV translates Strong's H517 in the following manner: mother (214x), dam (5x), parting (1x).

  1. mother

    1. of humans

    2. of Deborah's relationship to the people (fig.)

    3. of animals

  2. point of departure or division

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵם ʼêm, ame; a primitive word; a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father]):—dam, mother, × parting.
STRONGS H517: Abbreviations
אֵם 221 noun feminine mother (Phoenician אם, Arabic أُمًّ, إِمًّ Ethiopic እዎ, Sabean אם (only in proper names compare e. g. BaeRel 118) Assyrian ummu COTGloss; Aramaic אֵם, אִימָּא, axmAe  ) — א׳ absolute Genesis 32:12 +; construct Genesis 3:20 +; suffix אִמִּי Genesis 20:12 + etc.; plural only suffix אִמֹּתֵנוּ Lamentations 5:3; אִמֹּתָם Jeremiah 16:3; Lamentations 2:12 (twice in verse); —
1. literal (human) mother, as parent Genesis 20:12; Genesis 32:12; Genesis 44:20; Exodus 2:8; Psalm 51:7; Psalm 113:9 (opposed to עֲקֶרֶת) Jeremiah 15:8 10; Jeremiah 20:14; Jeremiah 22:26; Jeremiah 50:12; 1 Chronicles 4:9; Songs 6:9; Songs 8:5 +; hence of Eve אֵם כָּל־חָ֑י Genesis 3:20; in poetry of birth, יָצָא מִבֶּטֶן אֵם Job 1:21; Ecclesiastes 5:14; יָצָא מֵרֶחֶם אֵם Numbers 12:12 compare Psalm 139:13 (Jeremiah 20:18 &) מִמְּעֵי אִמִּי גּוֺזִי Psalm 71:6 (subject י׳, compare גחה Psalm 22:10; > גּוֺזִי = my benefactor from birth Thes Ew Hup Pe); also וַתְּהִי אִמִּי קִבְרִי Jeremiah 20:17; מִבֶּטֶן אֵם = from earliest existence Judges 16:17; Job 31:18; Psalm 22:11; so מִמְּעֵי אֵם Isaiah 49:1; as giving suck Songs 8:1 (שְׁדֵי אֵם) Psalm 22:10; compare Psalm 131:2 (see Exodus 2:9 compare Exodus 2:8); as exercising authority Genesis 21:21; Genesis 24:28; Genesis 27:11), 13) 14; Judges 17:2f; Ruth 1:8; Songs 3:4; Songs 8:2 etc.; especially of queen-mother as possessing dignity & influence 1 Kings 1:11; 1 Kings 2:13) 19) 20; 2 Chronicles 22:2), 3; Songs 3:11; Proverbs 31:1; compare names of mothers of kings of Judah 1 Kings 14:21), 31; 1 Kings 15:2), 10), 13 +; as shewing love & care 1 Samuel 2:19; 1 Kings 3:27; 1 Kings 17:23; 2 Kings 4:30; Isaiah 66:13 (simile of י׳'s comforting his people; compare also Genesis 27:45); as beloved & lamented 1 Kings 19:20 (|| אָב) Genesis 24:67; Psalm 35:14; בֶּן־אִמּוֺ = own (uterine) brother Genesis 43:29; & || אָח Genesis 27:29; Deuteronomy 13:7; Judges 8:19; Psalm 50:20; Psalm 69:9; Songs 1:6; compare Songs 8:1; so בַּת־אִמּוֺ Leviticus 18:9; Leviticus 20:17; Deuteronomy 27:22 (|| בַּת־אָבִיו) Genesis 20:12; often with אָב, as parentes Jeremiah 16:3; Zechariah 13:3 (twice in verse); Isaiah 8:4; as rightfully claiming honour, authority, etc., compare above, Genesis 28:7 (P) compare Genesis 37:10 (E) Judges 14:2f, so in precept Proverbs 1:8; Proverbs 6:20; Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 15:20 etc. compare Ezekiel 22:7; laws enjoining these Exodus 20:12 = Deuteronomy 5:16; Leviticus 19:3 compare Deuteronomy 22:15; laws prohib. contrary Exodus 21:15), 17 (E) Leviticus 20:9 (twice in verse) (H) Deuteronomy 21:18), 19; Deuteronomy 27:16; laws as to mourning for Leviticus 21:2), 11 (H) Numbers 6:7 (P) compare Jeremiah 16:7; Ezekiel 44:25; left for wife Genesis 2:24; for mother-in-law Ruth 2:24; [Ruth 2:11] for husband Deuteronomy 21:13 (law for captive women); compare Deuteronomy 33:9 (of devoted service of Levites); loving, caring for children Proverbs 4:3 (on the opposite compare Psalm 27:10); loved, cared for Joshua 2:13 compare Joshua 2:18; Joshua 6:23. 1 Samuel 22:3; 1 Kings 19:20 compare 2 Samuel 19:38.
†2. figurative of Deborah as caring for her people אֵם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל Judges 5:7 (compare אָב Isaiah 22:21; Job 29:16); so of a city 2 Samuel 20:19 ('stock, race, community' RSK 28 compare Proph. iv. n 8); of Israel Hosea 2:4; Hosea 2:7; Hosea 4:5; compare Hosea 10:14; of Judah Isaiah 50:1 (twice in verse); of Hittite as mother of Jerusalem אָבִיךְ הָאֱמֹרִי וְאִמֵּךְ חִתִּית Ezekiel 16:3), 45 compare Ezekiel 16:44; Ezekiel 16:45; also Ezekiel 19:2), 10 & see Ezekiel 23:2.
† 3. of animals, dam Exodus 22:29 (of ox & sheep) Leviticus 22:27 (of bullock, sheep, or goat); Exodus 23:19 = Exodus 34:26 = Deuteronomy 14:21 (of kid); mother-bird Deuteronomy 22:6 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 22:7; figurative Job 17:14 לַשַּׁחַת קָרָאתִי אָבִי אָ֑תָּה אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָרִמָּֽה ׃.
†4. = point of departure or division אֵם הַדֶּרֶךְ Ezekiel 21:26. (|| ראֹשׁ שְׁנֵי הַדְּרָכִים).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:24; 3:20; 3:20; 20:12; 20:12; 20:12; 21:21; 24:28; 24:67; 27:11; 27:14; 27:29; 27:45; 28:7; 32:12; 32:12; 37:10; 43:29; 44:20

Exodus

2:8; 2:8; 2:9; 20:12; 21:15; 21:17; 22:29; 23:19; 34:26

Leviticus

18:9; 19:3; 20:9; 20:17; 21:2; 21:11; 22:27

Numbers

6:7; 12:12

Deuteronomy

5:16; 13:7; 14:21; 21:13; 21:18; 21:19; 22:6; 22:7; 22:15; 27:16; 27:22; 33:9

Joshua

2:13; 2:18; 6:23

Judges

5:7; 8:19; 14:2; 16:17; 17:2

Ruth

1:8

1 Samuel

2:19; 22:3

2 Samuel

19:38; 20:19

1 Kings

1:11; 2:13; 2:19; 2:20; 3:27; 14:21; 14:31; 15:2; 15:10; 15:13; 17:23; 19:20; 19:20

2 Kings

4:30

1 Chronicles

4:9

2 Chronicles

22:2; 22:3

Job

1:21; 17:14; 29:16; 31:18

Psalms

22:10; 22:10; 22:11; 27:10; 35:14; 50:20; 51:7; 69:9; 71:6; 113:9; 131:2; 139:13

Proverbs

1:8; 4:3; 6:20; 10:1; 15:20; 31:1

Ecclesiastes

5:14

Song of Songs

1:6; 3:4; 3:11; 6:9; 8:1; 8:1; 8:2; 8:5

Isaiah

8:4; 22:21; 49:1; 50:1; 66:13

Jeremiah

15:8; 15:10; 16:3; 16:3; 16:7; 20:14; 20:17; 20:18; 22:26; 50:12

Lamentations

2:12; 5:3

Ezekiel

16:3; 16:44; 16:45; 16:45; 19:2; 19:10; 21:26; 22:7; 23:2; 44:25

Hosea

2:4; 2:7; 4:5; 10:14

Zechariah

13:3

H517

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Strong's Number H517 matches the Hebrew אֵם ('ēm),
which occurs 220 times in 202 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 5 (Deu 22:15–2Ki 3:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:16 - “‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:9 - who said of his father and mother,
‘I regard them not’;
he disowned his brothers
and ignored his children.
For they observed your word
and kept your covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:13 - that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:18 - Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - The villagers ceased in Israel;
they ceased to be until I arose;
I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - “Out of the window she peered,
the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice:
‘Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19 - And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 - Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:3 - And his mother’s relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:2 - Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:4 - His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:9 - He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:4 - So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:8 - But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19 - And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:30 - Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:3 - And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay[fn] with you, till I know what God will do for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:25 - Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite,[fn] who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:37 - Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:19 - I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:11 - Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:13 - Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, “Do you come peacefully?” He said, “Peacefully.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:19 - So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat on his throne and had a seat brought for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20 - Then she said, “I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Make your request, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:22 - King Solomon answered his mother, “And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my older brother, and on his side are Abiathar[fn] the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:27 - Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:26 - Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:31 - And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:2 - He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:10 - and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:20 - And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:42 - Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:52 - He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2 - He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 - And Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the LORD who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”

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