Isa 33:18 | JFB | STEP | 18. meditate —on the "terror" caused by the enemy, but now past. where, &c.—the language of the Jews exulting over their escape from danger. scribe —who enrolled the army [MAURER ]; or, who prescribed the tribute to be paid [ROSENMULLER ]; or, who kept an account of the spoil. "The principal scribe of the host" ( ). The Assyrian records are free from the exaggerations of Egyptian records. Two scribes are seen in every Assyrian bas-relief, writing down the various objects brought to them, the heads of the slain, prisoners, cattle, sheep, &c. receiver —"weigher," Margin. LAYARD mentions, among the Assyrian inscriptions, "a pair a scales for weighing the spoils." counted . . . towers —he whose duty it was to reconnoitre and report the strength of the city to be besieged.

Isaiah 33:18

18. meditate—on the "terror" caused by the enemy, but now past.

where, &c.—the language of the Jews exulting over their escape from danger.

scribe—who enrolled the army [MAURER]; or, who prescribed the tribute to be paid [ROSENMULLER]; or, who kept an account of the spoil. "The principal scribe of the host" (2Ki 25:19; Jer 52:25). The Assyrian records are free from the exaggerations of Egyptian records. Two scribes are seen in every Assyrian bas-relief, writing down the various objects brought to them, the heads of the slain, prisoners, cattle, sheep, &c.

receiver—"weigher," Margin. LAYARD mentions, among the Assyrian inscriptions, "a pair a scales for weighing the spoils."

counted . . . towers—he whose duty it was to reconnoitre and report the strength of the city to be besieged.