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19:28; Isaiah 37:28, 29; Ezekiel 29:4; 38:4). “The Orientals make use of this contrivance for curbing their work-beasts...When a beast becomes unruly they have only to draw the cord on one side, which, by stopping his breath, punishes him so effectually that after a few repetitions he fails not to become quite tractable whenever he begins to feel it” (Michaelis). So God’s agents are never beyond his control.

(2.) Hakkah, a fish “hook” (Job 41:2, Hebrews Text, 40:25; Isaiah 19:8;

Habakkuk 1:15).

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