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+# Connecting Statement:
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+This continues background material that happened long before.
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 # Joab and all Israel
 
 The words "all Israel" refer to the army of Israel. Alternate translation: "Joab and all of the Israelite army" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])