. The comprehensive commentary on the Holy Bible : containing the text according to the Authorised version : Scott's marginal references : Matthew Henry's commentary, condensed ... the practical observations of Thomas Scott : with extensive notes, selected from Scott, Doddridge, Gill [et al.]. Charakosis, {vallum,) \\\\g. Machiiias. So Targ. and Arab. In2 Sam. 20:15 the word for bank is Soilali, which seems to have stood advanced thence into the trench itself. The Sept. has proschoma,agger, and so other translators. Vulg. circumdcderunt tr. mound,trench, rampart. The Heb
. The comprehensive commentary on the Holy Bible : containing the text according to the Authorised version : Scott's marginal references : Matthew Henry's commentary, condensed ... the practical observations of Thomas Scott : with extensive notes, selected from Scott, Doddridge, Gill [et al.]. Charakosis, {vallum,) \\\\g. Machiiias. So Targ. and Arab. In2 Sam. 20:15 the word for bank is Soilali, which seems to have stood advanced thence into the trench itself. The Sept. has proschoma,agger, and so other translators. Vulg. circumdcderunt tr. mound,trench, rampart. The Heb. 2 K. 19:32. is magen,Sept. tkyreos, which, says Gesenius, covered the whole body, thoughhe makes this larger shield to be the fHeb.) and the smallshield or buckler to be the m/igcn: and both to be from roots sipiify-ing to protect. So that there is also much uncertainty about theseengines.] This account in the SS. is long prior to any thing of the kindamong the Greeks aud Romans. Previously, the besieged could onlybe starved out; and hence sieges were very lo7ig and tedious. Shal-manezer was 3 yrs. in reducing so inconsiderable a place as Samaria,2 K. 17:5, 6. Sardanapalus kept Nineveh 7 yrs. Troy was besieged10 vrs. No wonder that, in consequence of these inventions, Uzziahs.
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