Jebusite
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The remains of a Jebusite wall and tower they found are believed to be the mysterious "Millo" mentioned in II Samuel, V, 9, "And David built round about from Millo and inward."
From Time Magazine Archive
Jdt 5:16 And they cast forth before them the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, the Jebusite, and the Sychemite, and all the Gergesites, and they dwelt in that country many days.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
It was this event, perhaps, which made Jerusalem a Jebusite city.
From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
To that cause they gave themselves—not sparingly or grudgingly, but like Araunah the Jebusite to David the son of Jesse, "as a king gives unto a king."
From The High Heart by King, Basil
And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite.
From Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities by Cooper, Robert
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