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David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 17. Evening. Hebrew “twilight,” in the morning ( Calmet.) or evening. Bible.—Some think that the pursuit lasted three days; others only from three till five in the evening. But David more probably slaughtered the intoxicated people, during the space of a whole day, from morning till evening. Calmet.—Septuagint “from the morning or evening star rising, αρο εωσφορου, till the afternoon, and on the following day,” ( Bible.) which commenced at sun-set. Calmet.—It was no battle, but flight and carnage. Menochius.
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