* cunning men.
  2:7,14  Ex 31:4 
 * to shoot arrows.
   These engines, it is probable, bore some resemblance to the
   {balist(917d) and {catapult(917d) of the Romans, which were employed
   for throwing stones and arrows, and were in reality the
   mortars and carcasses of antiquity.  With respect to the
   towers which Uzziah built in the wilderness, (ver. 10,) Mr.
   Harmer appears to have given a truer view of the subject than
   commentators in general have done, who suppose that they were
   conveniences made only for sheltering the shepherds from bad
   weather, or to defend them from incursions of enemies; for
   they might rather be designed to keep the nations that
   pastured there in awe, and also to induce them quietly to pay
   the tribute to which the 8th verse seems to refer.  William of
   Tyre describes a country not far from the Euphrates as
   inhabited by Syrian and Armenian Christians, who fed great
   flocks and herds there, but were kept in subjection to the
   Turks, in consequence of their living among them in strong
   places.

 * spread far.  Heb. went forth.
  Mt 4:24