appoint captains. set up battering-rams. Compare Ezekiel 4:2.
the mouth in the slaughter. a hole by. breach.
shouting. a war shout.
and. Some codices, with four early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read this "and" in the text.
a fort. a siege wall.