Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people—not at a loss for a pretext, but at a loss how to do it so as not to rouse the opposition of the people.
Whether it be right . . . to hearken to you more than . . . God, judge ye.
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