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Quiver; collectively expressed for quivers; a synecdoche for the whole military preparations, and a metonymy of the containing for the contained, viz. the arrows that will be shot out of them, called the sons of the quiver, Lam_3:13; bow and arrow being the chief weapons for war in those countries, and in those days.
Is an open sepulchre; a proverbial speech, Psa_5:9, relating to the dreadful havoc and destruction that will be made, devouring the living as the grave doth the dead, or making work for the greedy, devouring grave, that never saith it hath enough, Pro_1:12. Or, they shall destroy many with one quiver, as one grave will swallow many dead, which may note their skill, and the success they shall have, few of their arrows shall fail of doing execution.
They are all mighty men; these Chaldeans are all men of valour, fit for warriors.