I Chronicles 4:43
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and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped. And they have lived there to this day.
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INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 4 In this chapter is a further account of the tribe of Judah, and of some principal families in it, Ch1 4:1 and of the tribe of Simeon, their families, cities, and villages, Ch1 4:24 and of the enlargement of their borders, and conquest of the Amalekites, Ch1 4:39.
Open source ↗In this chapter we have, I. A further account of the genealogies of the tribe of Judah, the most numerous and most famous of all the tribes. The posterity of Shobal the son of Hur (Ch1 4:1-4), of Ashur the posthumous son of Hezron (who was mentioned, Ch1 2:24), with something particular concerning Jabez (Ch1 4:5-10), of Chelub and others (Ch1 4:11-20), of Shelah (Ch1 4:21-23). II. An account of the posterity and cities of Simeon, their conquest of Gedon, and of the Amalekites in Mount Seir (v. 24-43).
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And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.
And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows the location of his grave.
And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.
That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.