2 Sam 17:12

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in some place.

1Sa 23:23

we will light.

This is a very beautiful and expressive figure. The dew in Palestine, and other warm climates, falls fast, sudden, and heavy; and it falls upon every spot of earth, so that not a blade of grass escapes it. It is therefore no inapt emblem of a numerous and active army; and it was, perhaps, for this reason that the Romans called their light armed forces {rorarii.}

1Kgs 20:10; 2Kgs 18:23; 2Kgs 19:24; Isa 10:13; Isa 10:14; Obad 1:3