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Therefore you gave their rulers to be slain, and their bed, which was ashamed for her who was deceived, to be dyed in blood, and struck the servants with their masters, and the masters upon their thrones;
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Verse 3. And. Greek “For thou didst say: It shall not be so: and they did it because thou hadst given their princes unto slaughter, and their bed, which had perceived their deceit, unto blood; and thou didst slay the slaves with the princes, and the princes on their thrones; and thou gavest,” and so forth Bible.—This style seems rather poetical. Grot. Calmet.
Some authorities read which was ashamed for their deceit that they practiced.
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