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Thebez <08405> [Thebez.]

According to Eusebius, thirteen miles from Shechem, towards Scythopolis.

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woman <0802> [woman.]

shattered <07533> [and all to.]

An antiquated expression, meaning "full intention" to complete an object. "All to," observes Dr. Johnson, "is a particle of mere enforcement." The original is {wattaritz eth gulgalto,} which is simply as the LXX. render [kai eklase to kranion autou,] "and she brake his skull." Plutarch relates, that Pyrrhus was killed at the siege of Thebes, by a piece of a tile, which a woman threw upon his head.

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Draw ... sword <08025 02719> [Draw thy.]

young man ....................... young man <05288> [And his young man.]

It was a disgrace to be killed by a woman.