2 Kings 9:33 (KJV)

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And he said Throw her down So they threw her down and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses and he trode her under foot

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Cross-references

Throw her down. 1Ki 21:11

and he trode. 2Ki 9:26 2Ki 7:20 Isa 25:10 La 1:15 Mic 7:10 Mal 4:3 Mt 5:13 Heb 10:29

and on the horses.This terrible mode of punishment appears to have been but rarely used, though we occasionally meet with it during this and subsequent periods. The same punishment, it is well known, obtained among the Romans, who used to throw certain malefactors from the Tarpeian rock. This practice obtains among the Moors at Constantia, a town of Barbary; and is also of frequent occurrence in Persia.

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