Charles — Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Vol. I — Section 183
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Work: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament — Vol. I
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R. H. Charles ed. 1913, Vol. I
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three thousand chosen men. It is strange that so many of these ‘chosen men’ should have ‘ slipped away’ at the critical moment ; Josephus gives their number as only one thousand, but this is obviously a mistake, as he says that ‘ they all fled away, excepting eight hundred’! 8. he became desperate. Cp. Deut. xx. 3 (Sept.). 10, far be it from me to do this thing. My μοι γένοιτο ποιῆσαι τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτο, a very Hebraic phrase: nxt ΓΝ % abbr (cp. xiii. 5), see Gen. xliv. 7, 17; Joshua xxii. 29, xxiv. 16; 1 Kings xxi. 3. 13. the earth shook. Cp. 2 Sam. xxii. 8. from morning until evening. Jo…
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