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Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!
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Verse 3. Mail. There will be little or no resistance made. Calmet. 50:3. Bible.—The Persians denounce destruction to all taken in arms; or, according to Septuagint and Syr. they exhort each other to fight. Calmet.—“Let him,” and so forth Bible.—Hebrew of the Masorets, “you who bend … spare not.” Calmet.—Prot. “against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow,” and so forth Bible.—Hebrew is printed ne tendat tendat tendans. The second word is properly omitted in some MSS. Thus (1 Chron. 24:6) we read taken taken, achuz having been put erroneously for achad, one. Kennicott.
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