took: Joshua 10:16-18, Joshua 10:22-25; Job 12:16-21, Job 34:19; Psalms 83:11; Amos 2:14; Revelation 6:15-16, Revelation 19:19-21
discomfited: Heb. terrified
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Judges 8:12
Judges 8:12
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