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Every mighty man of them moved that day. The army of their men of war was one hundred seventy thousand footmen, plus twelve thousand horsemen, besides the baggage and the men who were on foot among them—an exceedingly great multitude.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Twenty. Greek seventy; Syr. sixty-two. Calmet.—Two, and so forth Greek twelve, as above. Calmet. 2:7. Menochius.—Syr. twenty-two. Some of these texts must be inaccurate. Calmet.—Yet the cavalry of Holofernes ( Bible.) might be increased, since he began the war.—Taken. Syr. “servants, and those who had joined them in great numbers.”
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