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There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
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A Parable, Not History
Commentators widely agree that this verse begins a parable or a general illustration, not a specific historical account. The focus is not on identifying the city or king, but on the moral lesson about wisdom and power that the story is designed to teach.
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Ecclesiastes
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A parable probably without foundation in fact. Critics who ascribe this book to a late age offer no better suggestion than that the “little city” m…
19th Century
Anglican
Idle attempts have been made to find a historical reference in this passage. What is told here is so like the story (2 Samuel 20:0) of …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[There was] a little city, and few men within it Which some take to be a piece of history, a real matter of fact; th…
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