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2 Samuel 23:25–26

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Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
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From verse 25

  1. 1 Chronicles 11:27–28Rank 1 from verse 25
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    27Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

    28Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer the Antothite,

  2. Judges 7:1Rank 2 from verse 25
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    1THEN Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

From verse 26

  1. 2 Samuel 14:2Rank 1 from verse 26
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    2And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

  2. 1 Chronicles 11:27–28Rank 2 from verse 26
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    27Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

    28Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer the Antothite,

  3. 1 Chronicles 27:9–10Rank 3 from verse 26
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    9The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

    10The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

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2 Samuel 23:26

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son

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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.

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24Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

25Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

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26Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

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27Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

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