Verse 10
10. Towers in… desert Such towers were a necessity on exposed frontiers, where marauding parties were wont to surprise and plunder all who kept not a lookout against such plunderers. Compare 2 Chronicles 20:24; 2 Kings 9:17; 2 Kings 17:9.
Digged many wells Better as the margin, cut out many cisterns. In a desert country, where there are no springs, it was necessary to form such cisterns to catch and hold rain water, which falls in Palestine only in winter months.
The low country The Shephelah, or plain of Philistia, whose territory Uzziah had conquered, 2 Chronicles 26:6.
The plains Hebrew, the mishor; the upland plateau beyond the Jordan.
In Carmel In this connexion the margin is the better rendering, in the fruitful fields, for Mount Carmel was not under Uzziah’s control.
He loved husbandry Literally, loved the ground; but the common version gives the true sense. The whole verse testifies to the agricultural enterprise of Uzziah.
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