THE FOURTH ADDRESS 1-3. False security of Judah and Israel. 4-6. Carelessness and luxury. 7-11. Captivity, siege, death, ruin. 12, 13. Preposterous errors. 14. The coming of the avenger. 1, 2. Render, 'Woe to the easy-going in Zion and to the secure in the mountain of Samaria! Make the round o... [ Continue Reading ]
CHANT] RV 'sing idle songs' is an improvement. The musicians were lazy triflers. INVENT TO THEMSELVES, etc.] In the psalm which closes the Greek Psalter, David is made to assert: 'My hands fashioned an instrument, and my fingers fitted together a psaltery': see also 2 Chronicles 29:26; 2 Chronicles... [ Continue Reading ]
EXCELLENCY] i.e. the excellent things of which the nation was proud. 9. The city is besieged, and if there is a house in which the pestilence has left ten men alive their turn shall come.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A MAN'S UNCLE, etc.] RV is a little different: 'And when a man's uncle' (RM 'kinsman') 'shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ENTERING IN OF HEMATH] the ideal northern boundary of the Holy Land (Numbers 13:21; 2 Kings 14:25): it is the great depression between the N. end of Lebanon and the Nusariyeh mountains. THE RIVER OF THE WILDERNESS] RV 'the brook of the Arabah,' the Wâdî-el-Ahsih, the southern boundary.... [ Continue Reading ]