2 Samuel 20:15 (KJV)

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And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah and they cast up a bank against the city and it stood in the trench and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall to throw it down

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cast up. 2Ki 19:32 Jer 32:24 Jer 33:4 Lu 19:43

a bank.So LXX. generally render {solelah,} by [proschoma or choma;] which latter is described by Potter as "a mount, which was raised so high as to equal, if not exceed, the top of the besieged walls. The sides were walled in with bricks or stones, or secured with strong rafters; the fore part only, being by degrees to be moved near the walls, remained bare." it stood in the trench. or, it stood against the outmostwall. battered, etc. Heb. marred to throw down.

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