Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
KJV
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
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Fear took hold upon them there,.... That is, either when they came up to the city, and passed by it, and saw what they did; or, as Kimchi observes, in the place where they thought to have made a great slaughter; that is, in Armageddon,
Rev 16:16
; so upon the slaughter of the seven thousand names of men, or men of name and renown, such as the kings here assembled, the remnant will be frightened,
Rev 11:13
;
and pain, as of a woman in travail; this figure is made use of elsewhere, when the destruction of Babylon and the coming of Christ are spoken of; see
Isa 13:8
.
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