20Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-25)God, having displayed his own power in those creatures that are strong and despise man, here shows it in one scarcely inferior to any of them in strength, and yet very tame and serviceable to man, and that is the horse, especially the horse that is prepared against the day of battle and is serviceable to man at a time when he has more than ordinary occasion for his service. It seems, there was, in…
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