Verse 26
And Alammelech, and Amad ,.... Of the two first of these there is no mention elsewhere:
and Misheal is the same with Mashal, 1 Chronicles 6:74 ; and is by Jerom F12 De loc. Heb. fol. 93. E. called Masan, and said to be near Carmel to the sea:
and reacheth to Carmel westward ; or, "to the sea", as Carmel is called "Carmel by the sea"; see Gill on Jeremiah 46:18 , it is hereby distinguished from Carmel in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:55 ; (Pliny F13 Ut supra. (Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 19.) calls it a promontory):
and to Shihorlibnath ; the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint versions make two places of it: but the sum of the cities after given will not admit of it: more rightly Junius renders it Sihor by Libhath, and takes Sihor to be the river Belus, or Pagidus; so called either because of its likeness to the Nile, one of whose names is Sihor, Jeremiah 2:18 ; or because its waters might be black and muddy; it was the river out of which sand was fetched to make glass of: and Libnath, which has its name from whiteness, the same writer thinks may be the Album Promontorium, or white promontory of Pliny F14 Ibid. , which he places near Ptolemais, between Ecdippa and Tyre, and is very probable.
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