OLD TESTAMENT

Judges 20:43

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43

They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.

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Verse 43. Rest. Hebrew “with ease, or at leisure they crushed them,” and so forth Others translate, ( Calmet.) Monvee, from Nucha, Noua, (Septuagint Rom. Bible.) Menucha,” and so forth We read of a place in the tribe of Juda, called Menuchta, 1 Chronicles 2:52. Calmet.—The same word may be taken as a proper name, or may signify rest. Menochius.

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