* And other ten thousand.
No intimation is given on what account, or on what
provocation, this most cruel conduct towards the prisoners of
war was adopted. The enmity between Israel and Edom seems to
have been reciprocal and deeply malignant. The victorious
king and his army considered every individual of Edom as a
traitor and rebel; and so adjudged them to death, and acted on
this judgment. But their conduct was wholly inexcusable, and
could only perpetuate rancour to future generations, and
provoke the surviving Edomites to cruel retaliations, whenever
they had it in their power.
* cast them.
2Sa 12:31 1Ch 20:3
* broken in pieces.
20:10 21:8-10
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