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Jos_5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
Ver. 1. Heard that the Lord, &c.] Aé âëáâáé ðïäùêåéò : Ill news is swift of foot, and, like ill weather, cometh before it is sent for.
That their heart melted.] This fearfulness and faintheartedness had utterly unmanned them, expectorated all their courage, and so fitted them for desolation. {Deu_28:7} Metals melted lose their hardness: so men their hardiness by fear, that cowardly passion.