And probably back home there would be the implication that if you can't work things out among them with consensus, probably the king has some weight.

当在本国的领土时,如果对最终的决定存在着很大的争议,国王的意见有很大的分量

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You have some kind of a lord, I mean a king, for lack of a better name, a monarch who fundamentally rules and everybody is subject to him.

你会想到领主,也就是国王,我想不出更好的说法了,统治者制定规则,一切都要臣服于他

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And why the claim of the utter destruction of the Canaanites when evidence points to close Canaanite origins? This practice, which I mentioned before and is known as herem or the ban, is not unique to Israel. I know some of you have studied it in sections you looked at the inscription of King Mesha, King Mesha of Moab.

那为何要声称迦南彻底的毁灭呢？,当证据指出了迦南的起源，这一习俗，也就是我之前提到的禁忌或祭祀，并不是以色列独有的，我想你们也已经学过,你们看摩押米沙王的题词，摩押的米沙王。

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That is to say, it was some kind of a big religious thing going on here, where the king-- it was obviously a royal thing because the cost of it was so enormous; nobody else could afford a tomb of that kind.

也就是说,蜂窝墓与庞大的宗教行为有关,很显然与皇室相关,这是国王所埋葬的地方,因为建造它耗资巨大,没有其他人能建造的起这种墓穴

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