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Judges 4:21

Judges 4:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

took: Judges 3:21, Judges 3:31, Judges 5:26, Judges 15:15; 1 Samuel 17:43, 1 Samuel 17:49-50; 1 Corinthians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 1:27

a nail: One of the spikes of the tent. See note on Exodus 35:18.

and took: Heb. and put

smote: Psalms 3:7

he died: Judges 5:27

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