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When he announced this to the king, he said, “If he (is or comes) alone, there is good news in his mouth,” namely, because several runners would have shown themselves if it had been a flight. As the first messenger came nearer and nearer, the watchman saw another man running, and shouted this into the gate (הַשֹּׁעֵר is wrongly pointed for הַשַּׁעַר, according to the lxx, Syr., and Vulgate); whereupon the king replied, “This is also a good messenger.”