Genesis 25:13
the names.1Ch 1:29-31Nebajoth.From Nebajoth sprang the Nabatheans, who inhabited Arabia Petraea; from Kedar, the Cedreans, who dwelt near the Nabatheans; and from Jetur, the Itureans, who inhabited a small tract of country east of Jordan, which afterwards belonged to Manasseh. 36:3; Isa 60:7Kedar.Ps 120:5; So 1:5; Isa 21:16,17; 42:11Genesis 37:25
they sat.Es 3:15; Ps 14:4; Pr 30:20; Am 6:6Ishmeelites.28,36; 16:11,12; 25:1-4,16-18; 31:23; Ps 83:6Gilead.31:21; 43:11; Jer 8:22spicery.{Nechoth,} is rendered by the LXX. "incense;" Syriac, "resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;" Acquila, "storax;" which is followed by Bochart. This drug is abundant in Syria, and here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly pleasant fragrance. balm{Tzeri,} which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the ancients have generally interpreted it resin. myrrh.{Lot,} is probably, as Junius, De Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus contend, the same as the Arabic {ladan}, Greek [ladanon,] and Latin {ladanum}.Genesis 37:28
Midianites.25; 25:2; Ex 2:16; Nu 25:15,17; 31:2,3,8,9; Jud 6:1-3; Ps 83:9Isa 60:6sold.45:4,5; Ps 105:17; Zec 11:12,13; Mt 26:15; 27:9; Ac 7:9Judges 5:23
Curse ye.1Sa 26:19; Jer 48:10; 1Co 16:22Meroz.This city of Meroz seems to have been, at this time, a place of considerable importance, since something great was expected from it; but probably, after the angel of the Lord had pronounced this curse, it dwindled and like the fig-tree which Christ cursed, withered away; so that we never read of it after this in Scripture. the angel.2:1; 4:6; 6:11; 13:3; Mt 25:41they came.21:9,10; Ne 3:5to the help.1Sa 17:47; 18:17; 25:28; Ro 15:18; 1Co 3:9; 2Co 6:11 Samuel 25:10-11
Who is David.20:30; 22:7,8; Ex 5:2; Jud 9:28; 2Sa 20:1; 1Ki 12:16; Ps 73:7,8Ps 123:3,4; Isa 32:5,7there be.22:2; Ec 7:10 Shall I then.3; 24:13; De 8:17; Jud 8:6; Job 31:17; Ps 73:7,8; 1Pe 4:9flesh. Heb. slaughter. give it.Ec 11:1,2; Ga 6:10whom.14,15; Joh 9:29,30; 2Co 6:91 Kings 20:11
Let not him, etc.This was no doubt a proverbial mode of expression. Jonathan renders it: "Let not him who girds himself, and goes down to battle, boast as one who has conquered and returned from it." 1Sa 14:6,12,13; 17:44-47; Pr 27:1; Ec 9:11; Isa 10:15,16Mt 26:33-35,75harness.The word harness is an obsolete word for armour, derived from the French {harnois;} see Ex 13:18.2 Kings 14:9
The thistle.Jud 9:8-15; 2Sa 12:1-4; 1Ki 4:33; Eze 20:49The word {choach,} which is rendered here, and in 2 Ch 25:18; Job 31:18, thistle, in 1 Sa 13:6, thicket in Isa 34:13, bramble, and in 2 Ch 33:11; Pr 26:9; So 2:2; Ho 9:6 thorn, is probably the black thorn, or sloe tree, the {prunus spinosa} of Linnæus, as the same word signifies in Arabic. There is a vast deal of insolent dignity in this remonstrance of Jehoash; but it has nothing conciliatory; no proposal of making amends for the injury his army had done to the unoffending inhabitants of Judah. (2 Ch 25:10-13.) The comparatively useless thorn, which may by chance lacerate the incautious passenger, is made the emblem of the house of Judah and David, while the house of Jehu is represented by the stately cedar.
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