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People/CharactersShimei, son of Gershon "Shimi"

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1 & 2 Kings: A Commentary by Walter Brueggemann1 Kings 2:36-46
1 And 2 Kings, Volume 1: New Century Bible Commentary by Gwilym H. Jones1 Kings 2:36-46
1 And 2 Kings, Volume 2: New Century Bible Commentary by Gwilym H. Jones1 Kings 2:36-46
1 Kings: The Wisdom and the Folly (Focus on the BIble) by Dale Ralph Davis1 Kings 2:36-46
1, 2 Kings (Bible study commentary series) by Howard F. Vos1 Kings 2:36-46
Book of Kings 1; a commentary by Leo Lazarus Honor1 Kings 2:36-46
The Expositor's Bible Commentary (Volume 4) 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job by Frank E. Gaebelein1 Kings 2:36-46
First & Second Kings: Everymans Bible Commentary by Robert L. Hubbard1 Kings 2:36-46
First and Second Kings by Richard I McNeely1 Kings 2:36-46
First and Second Kings (Cokesbury basic Bible commentary) by Linda B. Hinton1 Kings 2:36-46
The First Book of Kings (Cambridge Bible Commentaries on the Old Testament) by J. Robinson1 Kings 2:36-46
I Kings by Mordechai Cogan1 Kings 2:36-46
Thru the Bible Commentary, volume 13: First and Second Kings by J. Vernon McGee1 Kings 2:36-46

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