1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| II Samuel 10:7 | And when David heard this, he sent Joab, and the whole army of warriors. | Warriors. The outrage offered to the ambassadors was a sufficient reason. The king of Ammon might have refused to receive them; but he could not, with any propriety, treat them with scorn. "The right of ambassadors has both a divine and human sanction." (Cicero, contra Verrem 3.) --- The Romans have frequently waged war to revenge such wrongs. (Grotius, Jur. 2:18.) |