There is not one of them left. —The story of this exaggerated report, so true to life, indicates contemporaneous authorship.

And it came to pass while they were in the way
On their road homewards, before they got to Jerusalem:

that tidin…

Jonadab was as guilty of Ammon's death as of his sin; those who counsel us to do wickedly prove to be such false friends. Instead of loathing Absal…