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But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable mourning was heard for the children that were bewailed.
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And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king.
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So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them; for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.
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For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God.
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For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,
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Thy almighty word leapt down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction.
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With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he stood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth reached even to heaven.
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Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears unlooked for came upon them.
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And one thrown here, another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.
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For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest they should perish and not know why they suffered these evils.
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But the just also were afterwards touched by an assault of death, and there was a disturbance of the multitude in the wilderness: but thy wrath did not long continue.