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Lo-debar
No pasture, (2 Sam 17:27), a town in Gilead not far from Mahanaim, north of the Jabbok (2 Sam 9:4, 2 Sam 9:5). It is probably identical with Debir (Josh 13:26).
Named in the Bible
3 verses
- 2 Samuel 9:4 And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.
- 2 Samuel 9:5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
- 2 Samuel 17:27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
