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He had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons who rode on seventy donkey colts. He judged Israel eight years.
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Verse 14. Forty sons. At this we need not be surprised, in a country where polygamy prevailed. Priam had 50 sons, and the Turks have often as many.—Colts. This was as great a distinction as to keep one’s coach among us. Calmet. 10:4. Calmet.—This judge succeeded Ahialon, A. 2872, A.Calmet. 1182, the year after Troy was taken, having endured a ten years’ siege, by the treachery of Antenor, and of Æneas, Dictys, and so forth Dares says the Greeks lost 886,000, and the Trojans 676,000, before the city was taken. Salien.
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