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From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 22. From. Hebrew “without the blood of soldiers, without the fat of the valiant, the bow of Jonathan had never returned.” Kennicott.—Fat. The entrails. It might also denote the most valiant of the soldiers, as we read of “the fat or marrow of corn” for the best. Psalms 80:17. Calmet.—Jonathan attacked the most courageous, and laid them dead at his feet. Bible.—Empty. Saul carried destruction wherever he went.
Et nos tela, pater, ferrumque haud debile dextrâ,
Spargimus & nostro sequitur de vulnere sanguis. Æn. xii. 50.
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