Verse 20
20. Go up A passage is here interjected, (20-23,) in which the prophet speaks with touching pathos of the fate of Judah. So far from marring, it actually contributes to the higher unity of the chapter: for the commonwealth is ever present to the prophet’s mind; and as he details one unworthy kingly history after another, it adds to the effectiveness of the whole that he should pause in the midst of these illustrations of kingly apostasy to think of the people and the kingdom whose interests were so disastrously affected by them.
Lebanon… Bashan… passages Rather, Abarim, as in the standard Version. The mountains that bordered on Palestine: Lebanon on the north; Bashan, northeast; Abarim, southeast.
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