1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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II Chronicles 26:7

And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.

Gurbaal. Gerara, (St. Jerome, Trad.) or Gebal, Psalm 82:8. Septuagint, "the rock," or Petra, in Arabia, where Stephanus places the Gabalenes. --- Ammonites. Hebrew mehunim. Septuagint, "Mineans," (chap. 20:1.; Haydock) upon the Red Sea, (Stephanus) or Mediterranean, (Pliny, [Natural History?] 6:28,) or in Arabia Felix. (Strabo) (Menochius)