But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Went, or had gone before, and commanded his men to defend the walls of Aphec. (Haydock)
But the slaughter of these 27,000 is joined to the preceding. (Menochius)
God caused the walls to fall, as he had done those of Jericho; or the Israelites beat them down with battering rams, and the defendants perished in the ruins.
Chamber. Josephus observes that it was under ground. Micheas told Benadad that he would have thus to hide himself again, chap. xxii. 25. (Calmet)