The Final Pathetic Bleatings of the Forum

Oh wonderous Forum, I have a question.

And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even
like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to
himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great
things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which
thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and
their gods? [2 Samuel 7:23]

No, that's not my question. My question is: How come people
could get away with run-on sentences like that in Biblical
times? I mean, Hemingway would have run screaming from the
room halfway through the second line.

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It's just that the only thing you picked up is a so-so typographer.

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I prefer II Kings 6:28-29:

And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

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I prefer Proverbs 31:31:

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

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Isaiah 3:4

...and babes shall rule over them.

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Song of Solomon 7:9

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth [down] sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

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