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1Sa 25:2 — And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

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Maon	1Sa 23:24
possessions were	or, business was. Carmel. Not the famous mount Carmel, in the north of Canaan, and in the tribe of Asher; but a city, on a mountain of the same name, in the south of Judah, which seems to have given name to the surrounding territory. Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that there was in their time a town called Carmelia, ten miles east from Hebron, where the Romans kept a garrison, whose position well agrees with this Carmel.
man	Gen 26:13; 2Sa 19:32; Psa 17:14; Psa 73:3-7; Luk 16:19-25
three thousand	Gen 13:2; Job 1:3; Job 42:12
shearing	This was a very ancient custom, and appears to have been always attended with festivity. The ancient Romans, however, used to pluck off the wool from the sheep's backs; and hence a fleece was called vellus, a vellendo, from plucking it off. Pliny says, that in his time sheep were not shorn every where, but in some places the wool was still plucked off. Gen 38:13; 2Sa 13:23,24
Carmel	1Sa 30:5; Jos 15:55

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Maon

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three thousand

shearing

Carmel

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