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     * smote.
     # Ps 18:34-40,47,48; 20:7,8; 149:6-9; 2Th 1:6|
     * the stroke.
     # Jer 18:21|
     * what they would.  Heb. according to their will.
       The Chaldee paraphrast says that none appeared against the
       Jews but Amalekites only, who were infatuated, and had their
       hearts hardened, as Pharaoh's against Israel, to take up arms
       to their own destruction.  Some had such an inveterate,
       implacable malice against the Jews, that Haman's fall and
       Mordecai's advancement, instead of convincing, seemed only to
       exasperate them the more.  How have the most dreadful scourges
       ravaged a country, and yet the inhabitants are unmindful of
       the Almighty Disposer of events, and that the cause of his
       righteous displeasure is their continual provocation!  Forty
       years long was he grieved with one generation, who learned not
       his ways, although daily fed and clothed by a miracle.