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In them, he charged them to use their own laws in every city, to help each other, and to treat their adversaries and those who attacked them as they pleased,
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Verse 11. Spoil. This was retaliating, as they were to have been treated in like manner. Calmet.—Such were the barbarous customs of the country. Bible.—It might not still be lawful thus to involve the innocent with the guilty, though the king did not ill in allowing the Jews to stand up in their own defence. 2 Kennicott. 21:6. Some think that they were only to prevent the execution of the former edict, which could not be revoked. See Calmet. 3. Calmet.—A form of trial was observed. Calmet. 16:20. Menochius.
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