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     * 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|