Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 2 Kings 9:33

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Throw her down: Kg1 21:11 and on the horses: This terrible mode of punishment appears to have been but rarely used, though we occasionally meet with it during this and subsequent periods. The same punishment, it is well known, obtained among the Romans, who used to throw certain malefactors from the Tarpeian rock. This practice obtains among the Moors at Constantia, a town of Barbary; and is also of frequent occurrence in Persia. and he trode: Kg2 9:26, Kg2 7:20; Isa 25:10; Lam 1:15; Mic 7:10; Mal 4:3; Mat 5:13; Heb 10:29 4 Kings (2 Kings) 9:34

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