* because they came.
   Or rather, "when [k(8c79) [] {(kee)} they
   came down to take away their cattle;" for it does not appear
   that the sons of Ephraim were the aggressors, but the men of
   Gath, who appear to have been born in Egypt.  This is the only
   place in the Sacred Writings where this piece of history is
   mentioned, and the transaction seems to have happened before
   the Israelites came out of Egypt; for it appears from the
   following verse, that Ephraim was alive when these children of
   his were slain.