Weights: Sometimes Regulated by the King's Standard
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2 Samuel 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.
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Babylonia and Assyria
... were banked out and the inundation regulated by means ... Sometimes, however, the tenant
received only a third, a ... One of the standard maneh-weights of stone, from ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

Chaldaean Civilization
... women it nearly touched the ground; sometimes an actual ... into the central depots and
regulated their redistribution ... an enemy's troops or the king's own subjects ...
/.../chapter iiichaldaean civilization.htm

The Greatness of the Soul,
... Indeed, sometimes spirit is not taken so largely, but is ... But in all men this passion
is not regulated and governed ... True, the King has not an equal, yet He is ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the greatness of the soul.htm

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