According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.

Ver. 50. Even Timnathserah.] Called also Timnathheres in Judges 2:9; that is, the figure of the sun, because, belike, there the sun had been worshipped: another Heliopolis.

And he built the city.] An old ruinous city, but by him repaired and beautified, that there he might spend and end his days.

Regum aequabat opes animis.

And well he might have engraven over his gates that distich of Ennius concerning Scipio -

Si fas (caedendo / cedendo) caelestia scandere cuiquam,

Mi soli caeli maxima porta pater."

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