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Besides this, he provided Jerusalem with machines for defence on the towers and battlements. חִשְּׁבֹנֹות from הִשָּׁבֹון, literally excogitata, i.e., machinae, with the addition “invention of the artificers,” are ingenious machines, and as we learn from the following וגו לִירֹוא, slinging machines, similar or corresponding to the catapultae and ballistae of the Romans, by which arrows were shot and great stones propelled. Thus his name spread far abroad (cf. 2Ch 26:8), for he was marvellously helped till he was strong.