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Re: Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8

From: "Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>
To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:10:04 -0500

This is another Lord of Hair:

2 Sam 14:26 And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end
that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled
it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's
weight.

From what I understand, there was a king's weight and a common weight. By
the king's weight, if my math is right, Absalom had about 5 pounds of the
stuff.

Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8, Bryan Rocine, 08/16/1998
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8, Paul Kissling, 08/17/1998
- Re: Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8, Ben Crick, 08/17/1998
- Re: Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8, Bill Ross, 08/17/1998
- Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8, Camille Bessette, 08/17/1998
- Re: Ba(al se(ar in 2 Ki 1:8, Lewis Reich, 08/18/1998