A little one … a small one Better perhaps: The least … the smallest. The word for "thousand" ("éleph) means also a larger or smaller group of families, "clan" or tribe. This is doubtless the sense in which it is employed here: comp. the parallel "nation" in the next line.

will hasten it in his time The fulfilment shall be instantaneous when once the appointed time has arrived. The reference is to the whole of the preceding prophecy.

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