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Psalms 78:47

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destroyed: or, killed

with hail: Psalms 105:32-33; Exodus 9:18-34

sycamore: From the value of the sycamore in furnishing wood for various uses, from the grateful shade which its wide spreading branches afforded, and on account of the fruit, which Mr. Maillet says the Egyptians hold in the highest estimation, we may conceive somewhat of the loss they sustained when "their vines were destroyed with hail; and their sycamore trees with frost." See note on 1 Chronicles 27:28.

frost: or, great hailstones

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