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POST . ‘Post’ is used in 2 Chronicles 30:6 , Esther 8:14 , Job 9:25 , Jeremiah 51:31 for ‘a bearer of despatches,’ ‘a runner.’ These runners were chosen from the king’s bodyguard, and were noted for their swiftness, whence Job’s simile ( Job 9:25 ), ‘My days are swifter than a post.’

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Post'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​p/post.html. 1909.
 
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