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From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah
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and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
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The Covenant of Circumcision
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
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Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
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Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
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The Year of Jubilee
“‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.
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“‘On the fifth day offer nine bulls, two rams and fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect.
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Moses commanded the Israelites: “Assign this land by lot as an inheritance. The Lord has ordered that it be given to the nine and a half tribes,
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(Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide. It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
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and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”
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Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine and a half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
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Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain and Rimmon—a total of twenty-nine towns and their villages.
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Keilah, Akzib and Mareshah—nine towns and their villages.
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Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) and Zior—nine towns and their villages.
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Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath and Beth Shemesh. There were nineteen towns and their villages.
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Ain, Juttah and Beth Shemesh, together with their pasturelands—nine towns from these two tribes.
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Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.
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Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron.
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who was ninety-eight years old and whose eyes had failed so that he could not see.
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Then Joab stopped pursuing Abner and assembled the whole army. Besides Asahel, nineteen of David’s men were found missing.
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After they had gone through the entire land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
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He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.
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Hoshea Last King of Israel
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years.
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He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
