Jos 7:21, 2Ki 5:24, Jer 41:8, Mat 13:44, 25:18 | TSK | STEP | I saw. Babylonish garment.{Addereth shinâr,} "a splendid or costly robe of Shinar," the plain in which Babylon stood. Bochart and Calmet have shewn at large, that Babylonish robes were very splendid, and in high reputation. Calmet says, they are generally allowed to have been of various colours, though some suppose they were woven thus; others, that they were embroidered with the needle; and others, that they were painted. Silius Italicus seems to think they were woven. Martial supposes them to have been embroidered with the needle; and Pliny and Apuleius speak of them as painted. wedge. Heb. tongue. I coveted. took them. they are hid.

Joshua 7:21

I saw.

Ge 3:6; 6:2; 2Sa 11:2; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37; Pr 23:31; 28:22

Babylonish garment.{Addereth shinâr,} "a splendid or costly robe of Shinar," the plain in which Babylon stood. Bochart and Calmet have shewn at large, that Babylonish robes were very splendid, and in high reputation. Calmet says, they are generally allowed to have been of various colours, though some suppose they were woven thus; others, that they were embroidered with the needle; and others, that they were painted. Silius Italicus seems to think they were woven. Martial supposes them to have been embroidered with the needle; and Pliny and Apuleius speak of them as painted.

Ge 10:10; *marg:

wedge. Heb. tongue. I coveted.

Ex 20:17; De 7:25; 1Ki 21:1,2; 2Ki 5:20-27; Hab 2:9; Lu 12:15

Ro 7:7,8; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1Ti 6:9,10; Heb 13:5; 2Pe 2:15

took them.

Pr 4:23; Mic 2:1,2; Jas 1:15

they are hid.

2Sa 11:6-17; 2Ki 5:24,25; Isa 28:15; 29:15; Lu 12:2

2 Kings 5:24

tower. or, secret place. and bestowed.

Jos 7:1,11,12,21; 1Ki 21:16; Isa 29:15; Hab 2:6; Zec 5:3,4

Jeremiah 41:8

Slay.

Job 2:4; Ps 49:6-8; Pr 13:8; Mt 6:25; 16:26; Mr 8:36,37; Php 3:7-9

treasures.These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.

Matthew 13:44

like.

6:21; Pr 2:2-5; 16:16; 17:16; 18:1; Joh 6:35; Ro 15:4

1Co 2:9,10; Col 2:3; 3:3,4,16

for joy.

19:21,27,29; Lu 14:33; 18:23,24; 19:6-8; Ac 2:44-47; 4:32-35

Php 3:7-9; Heb 10:34; 11:24-26

buyeth.

Pr 23:23; Isa 55:1; Re 3:18

Matthew 25:18

and hid.

Pr 18:9; 26:13-16; Hag 1:2-4; Mal 1:10; Lu 19:20; Heb 6:12; 2Pe 1:8