day by day: 2 Samuel 2:2-4, 2 Samuel 3:1; Job 17:9
like the host of God: That is, says the Targumist, a very numerous army, like the army of the angel of God. Genesis 32:2; Joshua 5:14; Psalms 148:2
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1 Chronicles 12:22
1 Chronicles 12:22
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