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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Judg 8:16
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
Judg 8:16 · Douay-Rheims
“So he took the ancients of the city and thorns and briers of the desert, and tore them with the same, and cut in pieces the men of Soccoth.”
On this verse:
“he took . . . the thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth--By refusing his soldiers refreshment, they had committed a public crime, as well as an act of inhumanity, and were subjected to a horrible punishment, which the great abundance and remarkable size of the thorn bushes, together with the thinness of clothing in the East, has probably suggested.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.