Judges 9:53 (KJV)

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And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Ab elech’s head and all to brake his skull
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woman. Jud 9:15 Jud 9:20 2Sa 11:21 2Sa 20:21 Job 31:3 Jer 49:20 Jer 50:45

and all to.An antiquated expression, meaning "full intention" to complete an object. "All to," observes Dr. Johnson, "is a particle of mere enforcement." The original is {wattaritz eth gulgalto,} which is simply as the LXX. render [kai eklase to kranion autou,] "and she brake his skull." Plutarch relates, that Pyrrhus was killed at the siege of Thebes, by a piece of a tile, which a woman threw upon his head.

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