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Douay-Rheims
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A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.
King James
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There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Louis Second
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Il y avait une petite ville, avec peu d'hommes dans son sein; un roi puissant marcha sur elle, l'investit, et éleva contre elle de grands forts
Martin Luther
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daß eine, kleine Stadt war und wenig Leute drinnen, und kam ein großer König und belegte sie und bauete große Bollwerke drum,
Vulgate
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civitas parva et pauci in ea viri venit contra eam rex magnus et vallavit eam extruxitque munitiones per gyrum et perfecta est obsidio

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


civitas : state, citzenship, city-state, city.
pauci : few, a few, some.
in : (+ acc.) into, toward, against.
in : (+ abl.) in.
contra : (+ acc.) against.
per : (prefix to an adjective) very, excessively, quite.
per : (+ acc.) (of time) throughout, during, in the course of.
per : (+ acc.) (of space) through, along, over / in the presence of.
per : (+ acc.) (cause) because of, on account of.
per : (+ acc.) (means/instrument) through, with, by, by means of.