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Honored in Israel as she is not in the East generally; one superiority of Judaism over other contemporary systems (). King Solomon rose up to meet and bowed himself unto Bathsheba, and set her on his right hand (). Figuratively, a city is mother of the surrounding villages its daughters (; ). Ezekiel () uses "mother of the way" for the parting of the way into two roads which branch from it, as from a common parent; however, Havernick, from a Arabic idiom, translated it as "the highway."