And spread themselves — The expression intimates, that they were very numerous, and made a very formidable appearance. So we read, Revelation 20:9, of the church's enemies going up on the breadth of the earth. But the wider they spread themselves, the fairer mark they are for God's arrows.
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2 Samuel 5:22
22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.