Verse 22
22. I will bring again from Bashan Bring whom? The verb has no object. Some suppose the enemies of Israel are meant, whom God will bring back from their flight and hiding-places, whether in mountain or sea, and quote Amos 9:1-3 as a parallel passage. Others suppose Israel is intended, and certainly the most simple and natural solution is to preserve the historic form of the allusion. The conquest of Bashan, under Moses, Numbers 21:33-35, was a marked event. It completed the victories east of Jordan, and accomplished the first important step in the settlement of the tribes. Thus it became an illustrious example and pledge of God’s power in saving his people. He will restore them as at Bashan.
From the depths of the sea From the heights of the battle-fields in Gilead and Bashan, the poet suddenly turns to the passage of the Red Sea. The latter delivered from Egypt, the former introduced to Canaan. These heroic reminiscences are the pledges that no obstacles shall baffle the all-conquering power of God.
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