Verse 2
(2) And it was told.—Our version rightly supplies these words. They are found in all the versions, and there can be no doubt that the word vayyuggar (Genesis 22:20) has in this case accidentally dropped out of the text.
They compassed him in.—They apparently did not know in what house he was. The word might mean “they went round the city” (Psalms 59:7), i.e., to look for him.
Were quiet—i.e., they made no attack. Thinking that they had secured him, they seem to have retired to rest. (Comp. Acts 9:23-24.)
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