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They were gathered together, and besieged them in the one hundred fiftieth year, and he made mounds to shoot from, and engines of war.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 20. Fifty. How then was peace made in 148, as we read 2 B. 11:21.? Usher (3841) supposes the ear was reckoned according to the Chaldee custom, which defers is six months. Basnage (ii. 1.) rather thins that the letter is placed out of its proper order, and should occur at the beginning of Eupator’s reign. See 2 B. 10.—Slings, or to thrown stones, and so forth ballistas. Bible.—The Greek and Josephus rather indicate terraces, or towers where the machines were placed.
circa B.Calmet. 163.
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