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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Judges 7:12

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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the Midianites and the Amalekites . . . lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number--a most graphic description of an Arab encampment. They lay wrapt in sleep, or resting from their day's plunder, while their innumerable camels were stretched round about them.
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