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Barnes' Notes on Isaiah 21:15

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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For they fled - The inhabitants of one part of the land. The grievousness of war - Hebrew, כבד kobed - “the weight, the heaviness, the oppression” of war; probably from the calamities that would result from the march of the Assyrian through their land, either on his way to Judea or to Egypt. return to 'Top of Page'
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