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     * cunning men.
     # 2:7,14; Ex 31:4|
     * to shoot arrows.
       These engines, it is probable, bore some resemblance to the
       {balist(917d) and {catapult(917d) of the Romans, which were employed
       for throwing stones and arrows, and were in reality the
       mortars and carcasses of antiquity.  With respect to the
       towers which Uzziah built in the wilderness, (ver. 10,) Mr.
       Harmer appears to have given a truer view of the subject than
       commentators in general have done, who suppose that they were
       conveniences made only for sheltering the shepherds from bad
       weather, or to defend them from incursions of enemies; for
       they might rather be designed to keep the nations that
       pastured there in awe, and also to induce them quietly to pay
       the tribute to which the 8th verse seems to refer.  William of
       Tyre describes a country not far from the Euphrates as
       inhabited by Syrian and Armenian Christians, who fed great
       flocks and herds there, but were kept in subjection to the
       Turks, in consequence of their living among them in strong
       places.

     * spread far.  Heb. went forth.
     # Mt 4:24|