FOOTNOTES (continued 2)
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Smith, George Adam and Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir
[1419] The population in time of war.
[1420] xii. 10, שׁפך רוח, not earlier than Ezek. xxxix. 29, Joel iii. 1, 2 (Heb.); תחנונים, only in Job, Proverbs, Psalms and Daniel; המר, an intrans. Hiph.; xiii. 1, מקור, fountain, before Jeremiah only in Hosea xiii. 15 (perhaps a late intrusion), but several times in post-exilic writings instead of pre-exilic באר (Eckardt); נִדָּה only after Ezekiel; 3, cf. xii. 10, דקר, chiefly, but not only, in post-exilic writings.
[1421] See especially xii. 12 ff., which is very suggestive of the Priestly Code.
[1422]Hist. Geog., Chap. XIX. On the name plain of Megiddo see especially notes, p. 386.
[1423] 2 Chron. xxxv. 22 ff.
[1424] Another explanation offered by the Targum is the mourning for “Ahab son of Omri, slain by Hadad-Rimmon son of Tab-Rimmon.”
[1425] LXX. gives for Hadad-Rimmon only the second part, ῥοῶν.
[1426] Ezek. viii. 14.
[1427] Baudissin, Studien z. Sem. Rel. Gesch., I. 295 ff.
[1428] Heb. Me; several codd. him: some read אֱלֵי to (him) whom they have pierced; but this would require the elision of the sign of the acc. before who. Wellhausen and others think something has fallen from the text.
[1429] See above, p. 482.
[1430] LXX. Συμεών.
[1431] Cf. Ezek. xxxvi. 25, xlvii. 1.
[1432] Read אֲדָמָה קִנְיָנִי for the Mass. אדם הקנני: so Wellhausen.
[1433] Heb. between.
[1434] But see below, p. 490.
[1435]ליהוה: or belonging to Jehovah; or like the Lamed auctoris or Lamed when construed with passive verbs (see Oxford Heb.-Eng. Dictionary, pp. 513 and 514, col. 1), from, by means of, Jehovah.
[1436] Heb.: and ye shall flee, the ravine of My mountains. The text is obviously corrupt, but it is difficult to see how it should be repaired. LXX., Targ. Symmachus and the Babylonian codd. (Baer, p. 84) read וְנִסְתַּם, shall be closed, for וְנַסְתֶּם, ye shall flee, and this is adopted by a number of critics (Bredenkamp, Wellhausen, Nowack). But it is hardly possible before the next clause, which says the valley extends to ’Aṣal.
[1437] Wellhausen suggests the ravine (גיא) of Hinnom.
[1438]אָצַל, place-name: cf. אָצֵל, name of a family of Benjamin, viii. 37 f., ix. 43 f.; and בֵית הָאֵצֶל, Micah i. 11. Some would read אֵצֶל, the adverb near by.
[1439] Amos i. 1.
[1440] LXX.
[1441] LXX.; Heb. thee.
[1442] Heb. Kethibh, יְקָרוֹת יִקְפָּאוּן, jewels (? hardly stars as some have sought to prove from Job xxxi. 26) grow dead or congealed. Heb. Ḳerê, jewels and frost, וְקִפָּאוֹן. LXX. καὶ ψύχη καὶ πάγος, וְקָרוּת וְקִפָּאוֹן, and cold and frost. Founding on this Wellhausen proposes to read חוֹם for אוֹר, and renders, there shall be neither heat nor cold nor frost. So Nowack. But it is not easy to see how חוֹם ever got changed to אוֹר.
[1443]Unique or the same?
[1444] Taken as a gloss by Wellhausen and Nowack.
[1445]עֲרָבָה, the name for the Jordan Valley, the Ghôr (Hist. Geog., pp. 482–484). It is employed, not because of its fertility, but because of its level character. Cf. Josephus’ name for it, “the Great Plain” (IV. Wars viii. 2; IV. Antt. vi. 1): also 1 Macc. v. 52, xvi. 11.
[1446] Geba “long the limit of Judah to the north, 2 Kings xxiii. 8” (Hist. Geog., pp. 252, 291). Rimmon was on the southern border of Palestine (Josh. xv. 32, xix. 7), the present Umm er Rummamin N. of Beersheba (Rob., B. R.).
[1447] Or be inhabited as it stands.
[1448] Cf. “Mal.” iii. 24 (Heb.).
[1449] Ezek. xxxviii. 21.
[1450] So Wellhausen and Nowack.
[1451] So LXX. and Syr. The Heb. text inserts a not.
[1452]חטאת, in classic Heb. sin; but as in Num. xxxii. 23 and Isa. v. 18, the punishment that sin brings down.
[1453] Hosea xiv. 3.
[1454] ix. 10.
[1455] So Wellhausen.
[1456] ix. 10.
[1457] Heb. Canaanite. Cf. Christ’s action in cleansing the Temple of all dealers (Matt. xxi. 12–14).
[1458] Unless the Psalm were counted as such. See below, p. 511.