0 2 Samuel : Science

The king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death. 20:3

Trivia: Who chased the birds and beasts away from the dead bodies of her sons as they hung before the Lord?

2 Samuel : Science (8)

  1. "He weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels."
    Since a shekel is about 11.5 grams, Absolom's hair weighed 2.3 kilograms! 14:25-26
  2. "Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant" 21:16
  3. "Saph, which was of the sons of the giant" 21:18
  4. There ... was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant." 21:20
  5. "These four were born to the giant in Gath." 21:22
  6. "The earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth." 22:8
  7. "The foundations of the world were discovered ... at the blast of the breath of his nostrils." 22:16
  8. Israel had 1,300,000 fighting men in this battle. Of course, this is a ridiculously high number for a battle between two tribal armies in 1000 BCE. (The United States had about 1.46 million active duty soldiers in 2010.) 24:9

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