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Chimham
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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2 Samuel 19:34; 2 Samuel 19:37-40. Taken by David to court, instead of Barzillai the Gileadite, his father, to whom the king owed a debt of gratitude for help in his flight from Absalom. In Jeremiah 41:17, ages after, the Jewish refugees from the Babylonians "dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt." David's patrimony was at Bethlehem; and this incidental notice leads to the inference that, having undertaken to provide for Chimham, he conferred on him his personal patrimony, subject to the reversion to David's heirs at the year of Jubilee; hence it was called "the habitation of Chimham."
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Bibliography Information
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Chimham'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/chimham.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Chimham'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/chimham.html. 1949.
