Genesis 14:15
And he.Ps 112:5smote.Isa 41:2,3Damascus.De 15:2; 1Ki 15:18; Ac 9:21 Kings 19:15
wilderness of Damascus.The wilderness of Damascus seems to have been that part of Arabia Deserta which lay on the south-east of that city, and east of the Trachonites, or the Djebel Haouran and El Ledja; at which the prophet could arrive without meeting Jezebel or any of his enemies. Ge 14:15; 2Ki 8:7; Ac 9:2,3anoint.Isa 45:1; Jer 1:10; 27:2-22Hazael.2Ki 8:8-15,28; 9:14; Am 1:41 Kings 20:34
The cities.15:20; 2Ch 16:4So he made a covenant.One of the conditions of this covenant, we learn, was, that Ahab should have "streets (chutzoth) in Damascus;" a proposal better relished by Ahab then understood by the generality of commentators. This, however, is well illustrated by Mr. Harmer, from William of Tyre, the great historian of the Crusades; from whom it appears that it was customary to give those nations which were engaged in them, churches, streets, and great jurisdiction therein, in those places which they assisted to conquer. The Genoese and Venetians had each a street in Acon, or Acre, in which they had their own jurisdiction, with liberty to have an oven, mill, baths, weights, and measures, etc. 42; 22:31; 2Ch 18:30; Isa 8:12; 26:10Acts 9:2
desired.14; 7:19; 22:5; 26:12; Es 3:8-13; Ps 82:2-4the synagogues.6:9; 13:14,15; 28:17-21of this way. Gr. of the way.19:9,23; 22:5; 28:22
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