John Gill - Exposition
John Gill
And he came and touched the bier,.... Or "bed", as the Syriac version renders it; and such was מטה, "the bier", or bed, on which one of three years old, and upward, was carried as above mentioned: so that on which Herod was carried to his grave is called κλινη "a bed", by Josephus (y). As for the bed, or bier, of what sort it was that they carried out their dead upon, take the following account:...