32
So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 32. Fords. Thus the enemy entered.—Marches. Hebrew “sedges,” which grew to the size of trees, and were burnt when the waters of the river and lakes were drained. Herodotus (i. 185. 178.) specifies a lake four hundred and twenty stadia square, and says the ditches round the city were full of water.
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