FOOTNOTES (continued 2)
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Smith, George Adam and Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir
[1181] i. 20, 17.
[1182] i. 19.
[1183] i. 5.
[1184] Cf. i. 12, 13, and many verses in chap. ii.
[1185] Of Merx and others: see above, p. 394.
[1186] See above, p. 377.
[1187] See Vol. I., pp. 242, 245 f.
[1188] Jer. xiv.
[1189] Cf. Ezek. xlvi. 15 on the Thamid, and Neh. x. 33; Dan. viii. 11, xi. 31, xii. 11: cf. p. 382.
[1190] Acts xxvi. 7.
[1191] XIV. Antt. iv. 3, xvi. 2; VI. Wars ii. 1.
[1192] i. 9, 13.
[1193] i. 16.
[1194] ii. 14.
[1195] i. 8, 13.
[1196] ii. 12.
[1197] LXX. Βαθουήλ
[1198] See above, pp. 399 f.
[1199]חסיל from חסל, used in the O.T. only in Deut. xxviii. 38, to devour; but in post-biblical Hebrew to utterly destroy, bring to an end. Talmud Jerus.: Taanith III. 66d, “Why is the locust called חסיל? Because it brings everything to an end.”
[1200] A.V. cheek-teeth, R.V. jaw-teeth, or eye-teeth. “Possibly (from the Arabic) projectors”: Driver.
[1201] Heb. text inserts elders, which may be taken as vocative, or with the LXX. as accusative, but after the latter we should expect and. Wellhausen suggests its deletion, and Nowack regards it as an intrusion. For אספו Wellhausen reads האספו, be ye gathered.
[1202] Keshōdh mishshaddhai (Isa. xiii. 6); Driver, as overpowering from the Overpowerer.
[1203] A.V. clods. מגרפותיהם: the meaning is doubtful, but the corresponding Arabic word means besom or shovel or (P.E.F.Q., 1891, p. 111, with plate) hoe, and the Aram. shovel. See Driver’s note.
[1204] Reading, after the LXX. τί ἀποθήσομεν ἑαυτοῖς (probably an error for ἐν αὐτοῖς), מה נניחה בהם for the Massoretic מה נאנחה בהמה How the beasts sob! to which A.V. and Driver adhere.
[1205] Lit. press themselves in perplexity.
[1206] Reading, with Wellhausen and Nowack (“perhaps rightly,” Driver) נשמו for נאשמו, are guilty or punished.
[1207]מדבר, usually rendered wilderness or desert, but literally place where the sheep are driven, land not cultivated. See Hist. Geog., p. 656.
[1208] See on Amos iii. 6: Vol. I., p. 82.
[1209] Zeph. i. 15. See above, p. 58.
[1210]פרשׂ in Qal to spread abroad, but the passive is here to be taken in the same sense as the Ni. in Ezek. xvii. 21, dispersed. The figure is of dawn crushed by and struggling with a mass of cloud and mist, and expresses the gleams of white which so often break through a locust cloud. See above, p. 404.
[1211] So travellers have described the effect of locusts. See above, p. 403.
[1212] Ezek. xxxvi. 35.
[1213] Heb. in his own ways.
[1214]יעבטון, an impossible metaphor, so that most read יעבתון, a root found only in Micah vii. 3 (see Vol. I., p. 428), to twist or tangle; but Wellhausen reads יְעַוְּתוּן, twist, Eccles. vii. 13.
[1215] Heb. highroad, as if defined and heaped up for him alone.
[1216] See above, p. 401.
[1217] Zeph. i. 14; “Mal.” iii. 2.
[1218] So (and not elders) in contrast to children.
[1219]Canopy or pavilion, bridal tent.
[1220]למשל בם, which may mean either rule over them or mock them, but the parallelism decides for the latter.