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Judges 9:53

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woman: Judges 9:15, Judges 9:20; 2 Samuel 11:21, 2 Samuel 20:21; Job 31:3; Jeremiah 49:20, Jeremiah 50:45

and all to: An antiquated expression, meaning "full intention" to complete an object. "All to," observes Dr. Johnson, "is a particle of mere enforcement." The original is wattaritz eth gulgalto:, which is simply as the LXX render και εκλασε το κρανιον αυτου:, "and she brake his skull." Plutarch relates, that Pyrrhus was killed at the siege of Thebes, by a piece of a tile, which a woman threw upon his head.

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