With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Consuls. Hebrew, "counsellors "or any in great authority. Septuagint, "kings, the counsellors of the land, who rejoiced, boasting of their swords. "The same word, choraboth, (Haydock) means both swords and solitudes. (Du Hamel)
Those great ones had prepared their own tombs, which were usually in solitary places; (Calmet) or they had filled all with their extensive palaces; and removed the people to a distance. (Haydock)
