Jdg_18:16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which [were] of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
Ver. 16. Stood by the entering of the gate.] To aid the thieves, if there should be any opposition made against them. So that here met those two ways of theft mentioned by Nazianzen,
åðéâïõëç
, or crafty contrivance, and
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, rapine and violence.