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The Twelve Scouts. Then we set out from Horeb and journeyed through that whole vast and fearful wilderness that you have seen, in the direction of the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord, our God, had commanded; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
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Agreeing with the proposal, I took twelve men from your number, one from each tribe.
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The Twelve Curses. The Levites shall proclaim in a loud voice to all the Israelites:
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Now choose twelve men, one from each of the tribes of Israel.
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the Lord said to Joshua: Choose twelve men from the people, one from each tribe,
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and command them, “Take up twelve stones from this spot in the Jordan riverbed where the priests have been standing. Carry them over with you, and place them where you are to stay tonight.”
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Summoning the twelve men he had selected from among the Israelites, one from each tribe,
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The twelve Israelites did as Joshua had commanded: they took up twelve stones from the Jordan riverbed as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for each of the tribes of the Israelites. They carried them along to the camp site, and there they placed them.
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Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the Jordan riverbed on the spot where the priests stood who were carrying the ark of the covenant. They are there to this day.
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At Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been taken from the Jordan,
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There fell that day a total of twelve thousand men and women, the entire population of Ai.
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Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities and their villages.
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Thus, with Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem, there were twelve cities and their villages.
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From the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun, the clans of the Merarites obtained twelve cities.
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The cities allotted to the Merarite clans, the last of the Levites, were therefore twelve in all.
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On reaching home, he got a knife and took hold of the body of his concubine. He cut her up limb by limb into twelve pieces and sent them throughout the territory of Israel.
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So the assembly sent twelve thousand warriors there with orders, “Go put the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead to the sword.
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So they rose and were counted off: twelve of the Benjaminites of Ishbaal, son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.
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When the Ammonites realized that they were in bad odor with David, they sent for and hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zobah, as well as the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and twelve thousand men from Tob.
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Chapter 17
Ahithophel went on to say to Absalom: “Let me choose twelve thousand men and be off in pursuit of David tonight.
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Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel who supplied food for the king and his household, each having to provide for one month in the year.
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Solomon’s Riches: Chariots and Horses. Solomon had forty thousand stalls for horses for chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.
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He fashioned two bronze columns, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
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This rested on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east, with their haunches all toward the center; upon them was set the sea.
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one sea; twelve oxen supporting the sea;