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Jehu

the 10th King of Israel; had his king, whom he shot with an arrow, and the priests of Baal in the temple and put to death 70 of Ahab's children, their idol.

Afterward relapsing into idolatry, he was punished by the dekingdom to Hazael, King of Syria. He died in 857 в. c. or town of Af- JALALABAD (jäl), a JELELABAD (jel-a-lä-bäd'), ghanistan; 78 miles E. N. E. of Kabul, on the Peshawar route. A famous and successful resistance was made here in 1841-1842 by the British forces under Seistan, Southwest Afghanistan. Pop., Sir Robert Sale. Also the capital of est., 10,000. There are several towns of this name in British India. a VISCOUNT OF SCAPA, a British

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