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with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Consuls. Hebrew “counsellors,” or any in great authority. Septuagint “kings, the counsellors of the land, who rejoiced, boasting of their swords.” The same word, choraboth, ( Bible.) means both swords and solitudes. D.—Those great ones had prepared their own tombs, which were usually in solitary places; ( Calmet.) or they had filled all with their extensive palaces; and removed the people to a distance. Bible.
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