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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Judges 8:16

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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he took . . . the thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth--By refusing his soldiers refreshment, they had committed a public crime, as well as an act of inhumanity, and were subjected to a horrible punishment, which the great abundance and remarkable size of the thorn bushes, together with the thinness of clothing in the East, has probably suggested.
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