Deu 16:18, Job 29:7-17, 30:1, Isa 3:2-3, Lam 1:4, 19, 2:10 | TSK | STEP | Judges. in all thy gates.This expression may refer to the gate of the city, as the forum or place of public concourse among the Israelites, where a court of judicature was held, to try all causes and decide all affairs. The same practice obtained among other Eastern nations. The Ottoman court, it is well known, derived its appellation of the {Porte,} from the distribution of justice and the dispatch of public business at its gates. And the square tower which forms the principal entrance to the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings of Grenada, retains to this day the appellation of the Gate of judgment, from its having been the place where justice was at one period summarily administered.

Deuteronomy 16:18

Judges.

1:15-17; 17:9,12; 19:17,18; 21:2; Ex 18:25,26; 21:6; 1Ch 23:4; 26:29

in all thy gates.This expression may refer to the gate of the city, as the forum or place of public concourse among the Israelites, where a court of judicature was held, to try all causes and decide all affairs. The same practice obtained among other Eastern nations. The Ottoman court, it is well known, derived its appellation of the {Porte,} from the distribution of justice and the dispatch of public business at its gates. And the square tower which forms the principal entrance to the Alhamra, or red palace of the Moorish kings of Grenada, retains to this day the appellation of the Gate of judgment, from its having been the place where justice was at one period summarily administered.

Job 29:7-17

De 16:18; 21:19; Ru 4:1,2,11; Zec 8:16

young men.

Le 19:32; Pr 16:31; 20:8; Ro 13:3,4; Tit 3:1; 1Pe 5:5

the aged.

Ro 13:7; 1Pe 2:17

refrained.

4:2; 7:11; Pr 10:19; Jas 1:19

laid.

21:5; 40:4; Jud 18:19; Pr 30:32

nobles held their peace. Heb. voice of the nobles was hid.their tongue.

Ps 137:6; Eze 3:26

the ear.

31:20; Pr 29:2; Lu 4:22; 11:27

I delivered.

22:5-9; Ne 5:2-13; Ps 72:12; 82:2-4; Pr 21:13; 24:11,12; Jer 22:16

the fatherless.

Ex 22:22-24; De 10:18; Ps 68:5; Jas 1:27

The blessing.

De 24:13; Ac 9:39-41; 2Co 9:12-14; 2Ti 1:16-18

ready.

31:19; De 26:5; Pr 31:6-9; Isa 27:13

I caused.

De 16:11; Ne 8:10-12; Phm 1:7

sing.

Ps 67:4; Isa 65:14

I put.

De 24:13; Ps 132:9; Isa 59:17; 61:10; Ro 13:14; 2Co 6:7; Eph 6:14

1Th 5:8; Re 19:8

a diadem.

Isa 28:5; 62:3

eyes.

Nu 10:31; Mt 11:5; 1Co 12:12-31

a father.

31:18; Es 2:7; Ps 68:5; Eph 5:1; Jas 1:27

the cause.

Ex 18:26; De 13:14; 17:8-10; 1Ki 3:16-28; Pr 25:2; 29:7

I brake.

Ps 3:7; 58:8; Pr 30:14

jaws. Heb. jaw teeth, or grinders. and plucked. Heb. andcast.

1Sa 17:35; Ps 124:3,6

Job 30:1

1 Job's honour is turned into extreme contempt;

15 and his prosperity into calamity.

they that are.

19:13-19; 29:8-10; 2Ki 2:23; Isa 3:5

younger than I. Heb. of fewer days than I. whose.

Ps 35:15,16; 69:12; Mr 14:65; 15:17-20; Lu 23:14,18,35,39; Ac 17:5

Tit 1:12

Isaiah 3:2-3

mighty.

2:13-15; 2Ki 24:14-16; Ps 74:9; La 5:12-14; Am 2:3

the ancient.

9:15; Eze 8:12; 9:5

captain.

Ex 18:21; De 1:15; 1Sa 8:12

the honourable man. Heb. a man eminent in countenance.

Jud 8:18

eloquent orator. or, skilful of speech.

Ex 4:10,14-16

Lamentations 1:4

ways.

2:6,7; 5:13; Isa 24:4-6; Jer 14:2; Mic 3:12

all her gates.

2:9; Jer 9:11; 10:22; 33:10-12

her priests.

11,12,18-20; 2:10,11,19-21; Isa 32:9-14; Joe 1:8-13

Lamentations 1:19

for.

2; 4:17; Job 19:13-19; Jer 2:28; 30:14; 37:7-9

my priests.

11; 2:20; 4:7-9; 5:12; Jer 14:15-18; 23:11-15; 27:13-15

Lamentations 2:10

elders.

4:5,16; 5:12,14; Job 2:13; Isa 3:26; 47:1,5

sit.Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend {Judæa capta.}

1:1

and keep.

3:28; Jer 8:14; Am 5:13; 8:3

cast up.

Jos 7:6; 2Sa 13:19; Job 2:12; Re 18:19

they have girded.

Isa 15:3; 36:22; Eze 7:18; 27:31; Joe 1:8

the virgins.

1:4; Am 8:13