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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Sa 14:26 — And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled [it]: because [the hair] was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
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when he polled
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2Sa 18:9; Isa 3:24; 1Cr 11:14 |
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two hundred shekels
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"If the shekel be allowed to mean the common shekel, the amount will be utterly incredible; for Josephus says that ""two hundred shekels make five minæ: "" and the mina, he says, ""weighs two pounds and a half;"" which calculation makes Absalom's hair weigh twelve pounds and a half! But it is probable that the king's shekel was that which Epiphanius and Hesychius say was the fourth part of an ounce, half a stater, or two drachms: the whole amount, therefore, of the 200 shekels is about 50 ounces, which make 4 lb. 2 oz. troy weight, or 3 lb. 2 oz. avoirdupois. This need not be accounted incredible, especially as abundance of oil and ointment was used by the ancients in dressing their heads. Josephus informs us, that the Jews also put gold dust in their hair. Gen 23:16; Lev 19:36; Eze 45:9-14" |
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2Sa 18:9 |
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that [was] under him went away. |
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Isa 3:24 |
And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; [and] burning instead of beauty. |
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1Cr 11:14 |
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? |
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Gen 23:16 |
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current [money] with the merchant. |
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Lev 19:36 |
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. |
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Eze 45:9 |
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD. |
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Eze 45:10 |
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. |
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Eze 45:11 |
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. |
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Eze 45:12 |
And the shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. |
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Eze 45:13 |
This [is] the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley: |
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Eze 45:14 |
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, [ye shall offer] the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] an homer of ten baths; for ten baths [are] an homer: |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 14:26," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Sa/14/26.html>.
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