he sent messengers after Abner No doubt in David's name, pretending to recall him for a further interview. A message from Joab would have excited Abner's suspicion, while on David's good faith he could place entire reliance.

the well of Sirah Rather more than a mile out of Hebron on the old paved road to the north is a spring with a reservoir called Ain Sareh, which is in all probability "the well of Sirah." This agrees sufficiently well with Josephus" statement that it was twenty stadia or two miles and a half distant from Hebron.

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