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Engine a term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applied in (2Chronicles 26:15) were designed to propel various missiles from the walls of the besieged town....

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Engine a term applied exclusively to military affairs in the Bible. The engines to which the term is applied in (2Chronicles 26:15) were designed to propel various missiles from the walls of the besieged town. One, with which the Hebrews were acquainted, was the battering ram, described in (Ezekiel 26:9) and still more precisely in (Ezekiel 4:2; 21:22)

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