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Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Don’t fight with small nor great, except only with the king of Israel.”
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Verse 31. Captains of, or mounted “on chariots.” There would hardly be so many general officers over the chariots alone. The same number of kings had been in a former engagement, and they had been replaced by these captains. Calmet. 20:24. Calmet.—Only. Not that the Syrians were to avoid hurting any body else, as they could not thus come at the king; (Salien) and we find one shot an arrow at the army of Israel; (verse 34. Bible.) but the main onset was to be directed against Achab, either to kill or to take him prisoner. Menochius.
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