OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 8:11

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He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.

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Verse 11. Chariots; to be drivers, ( Menochius.) or will make them fight from them.—Footmen, or guards. Xenophon places 4000 armed with bucklers before, and 2000 with lances all round the chariot of Cyrus. See Calmet. 22:17.

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