the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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2 Samuel 17:12
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in some place: 1 Samuel 23:23
we will light: This is a very beautiful and expressive figure. The dew in Palestine, and other warm climates, falls fast, sudden, and heavy; and it falls upon every spot of earth, so that not a blade of grass escapes it. It is therefore no inapt emblem of a numerous and active army; and it was, perhaps, for this reason that the Romans called their light armed forces rorarii. 1 Kings 20:10, 2 Kings 18:23, 2 Kings 19:24, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14, Obadiah 1:3
Reciprocal: Psalms 71:4 - out of the
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When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
After God finished talking with Abraham, God rose and left him.
When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
And he ceased talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
And God finished speaking with him and went up from Abraham.
And whanne the word of the spekere with hym was endid, God stiede fro Abraham.
and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.
When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found,.... For such a numerous army, which would be spread abroad, could not well fail of finding him out, let him be in what lurking place he would; whereas he might lie concealed, and escape so small a number as twelve thousand men:
and we will light upon him as the dew falleth upon the ground; whose drops are innumerable, and cover all the ground where they fall; and the phrase not only expresses their numbers, but the irresistible force they should come with, and the manner, secretly, unawares, opportunely; the Romans had a sort of soldiers, called from the dew "rorarii", who carried light armour, and fought first in the battle, from whence they had their name, because dew falls before it rains n:
and of him, and of all the men that [are] with him, there shall not be left so much as one; so that for the future Absalom would sit easy upon the throne, there being none left to molest him.
n Valtrinus de Milit. Roman. l. 3. c. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As the dew - Like the drops of dew, in the vast number of our host, and in our irresistible and unavoidable descent upon our enemies.