For the thought cf. Jeremiah 10:24-25. The interrogations imply, of course, a negative answer; Jehovah has notsmitten Israel as He has those that smote it. In the second question the reading of LXX. and Peshito is to be preferred on account of the parallelism: hath he been slain according to the slaughter of those that slew him (Israel).

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