2 Samuel 17:12-13
in some place 1Sam 23:23 we will light This is a very beautiful and expressive figure. The dew in Palestine, and other warm climates, falls fast, sudden, and heavy; and it falls upon every spot of earth, so that not a blade of grass escapes it. It is therefore no inapt emblem of a numerous and active army; and it was, perhaps, for this reason that the Romans called their light armed forces rorarii. 1Kgs 20:10; 2Kgs 18:23, 2Kgs 19:24; Isa 10:13-14; Obad 1:3 bring ropes In the same manner the king of Maturan, in Java, proposed pulling down a tower which the Dutch had built, by making his people and elephants pull at a number of chains, and ropes of cocoa-nut bark, thrown around it. one small Matt 24:2
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