And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
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Gill's Exposition
And the name of the second river is Gihon,.... There was one of this name in the land of Israel, which, or a branch of it, flowed near Jerusalem, Kg1 1:33 this Aben Ezra suggests is here meant, and…
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Man consisting of body and soul, a body made out of the earth and a rational immortal soul the breath of heaven, we have, in these verses, the provision that was made for the happiness of both; he…
Cambridge Bible
Gihon This river is not mentioned again by the same name in the Bible, except in Sir 24:27. The student will be careful not to confound it with the Gihon of 1Ki 1:33, a spring in the neighbourhood of…