Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/5_000_p.lzh/5_097.TXT

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fulness and truth; \*\\in the tabernacle of David\\; or %tent%;
meaning his palace, or house in Jerusalem, alluding to
his having been a shepherd before he was a king, or
referring to the unsettled state of David's house; this
was typical of the church of God, where Christ sits
and reigns as King, see \\#Am 9:11\\; the Targum is,
\*"in the city of David;"\* Jerusalem, as Aben Ezra:
\*\\judging and seeking judgment\\; acting the part of a
righteous, faithful, and diligent Judge; seeking to do
justice to the poor and needy, and searching into the
cause that comes before him, to find out, and take the
right side of it: \*\\and hasting righteousness\\; not delay-
ing justice, protracting a cause, deferring the sentence,
and the execution of it, but dispatching the whole as
speedily as may be; all which characters, though they
may be found in Hezekiah, yet are much more emi-
nently in Christ.
\*Ver. 6. \\We have heard of the pride of Moab\\, &c.]
These are the words of the prophet, either in the
name of the Lord, or in the person of the Jews, or of
other nations, who had heard very frequently, and
from many persons, and from every quarter, of the
excessive pride of this people, and had many instances
of it related to them, which foretold their ruin; for
pride comes before a fall: \*\\([he] is very proud)\\: though
his original was so base and infamous; and therefore
there is little reason to hope or expect that he would
take the advice above given him, or do the good offices
for the Jews he was exhorted to; his pride was such,
that he would despise the counsel of God, and would
never stoop to do any favour for his people: \*\\[even] of his
haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath\\; of his con-
tempt of the people of God, and his wrath against
them: \*\\[but] his lies [shall] not be so\\; or, %his strength% shall
%not be so% {b}; as his wrath: he shall not be able to do
what in his pride and wrath he said he would do; all
his wicked thoughts and devices, all his haughty and
wrathful expressions, will signify nothing; they will
all be of no effect, for God resisteth the proud, see
\\#Jer 48:30\\. It may be rendered, %not right%, that of %his di-
viners% {c}; their words and works, what they say or do;
so the word is used in \\#Isa 44:25\\.
\*Ver. 7. \\Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab\\, &c.]
One Moabite shall mourn for another; the living for
the dead; or one part of the country for another; or
to Moab, they shall howl in turns, answering to one
another: \*\\every one shall howl\\: every Moabite, or the
whole country of Moab shall howl, being everywhere
desolate: \*\\for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye
mourn: surely [they are] stricken\\; this was a very prin-
cipal city in the land of Moab, and a very strong one,
see \\#2Ki 3:25\\. It signifies, according to some, %the
city of the sun%, so called, it may be, because the sun
was worshipped here; or, according to others, %the
earthen city%, or %city of brick%, because its houses and
walls were made of brick; and so the Vulgate Latin
version renders it, %the walls of burnt brick%. Now this
strong city was to be razed even to the foundations,
so that these would be discovered, which would occa-
sion mourning to its inhabitants, and those of other
places. Kimchi interprets %the foundations%, of the great
men and princes of Moab, see \\#Jer 48:31\\ so the
Targum, \*"and they shall howl over the men of the
"city of their strength;"\* R. Jonah, of the men of the
army, the foundation of the kingdom; so Ben Melech.
The word translated %foundations% signifies also flagons
or bottles, and so Aben Ezra and Abendana under-
stand it here; and accordingly the words may be thus
rendered, %for the bottles of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn,
verily they are broken% {d}; this agrees with the significa-
tion of the word in \\#Ho 3:1 So 2:5\\ and with
what follows, concerning the vine of Sibmah; the
reason of the mourning seems to be, that there would
be no wine, and the bottles would lie useless, and be
broken.
\*Ver. 8. \\For the fields of Heshbon languish\\, &c.]
Through drought; or because of the forage of the
enemy, and their treading upon them; or because
there were no men left to till and manure them. Of
Heshbon \\see Gill on "Isa 15:4"\\. It seems to have been
a place famous for fields and pastures, and to have been
a very fruitful and well watered place; hence we read
of the fish pools in Heshbon, \\#So 7:4\\ though
Aben Ezra and Kimchi think the word signifies vines,
as they suppose it does in \\#De 32:32\\: \*\\[and] the vine
of Sibmah\\; called Shebam and Shibmah, in \\#Nu 32:3,38\\
thought to be the Seba of Ptolemy {e}; and
seems to have been famous for vines and vineyards:
\*\\the lords of the Heathen have broken down the principal plants\\
\\thereof\\; that is, the Chaldeans and their army, and
commanders and principal officers of it, dealing with
them as the Turks do with vines, wherever they meet
with them, destroy them; though Jarchi and Kimchi
terpret all this figuratively, both here and in the above
clauses, of the inhabitants of these places, the multitude
of the common people, and their princes, some being
killed, and others carried captive; to which sense
the Targum, \*"because the armies of Heshbon are
"spoiled, the multitude of Sebama are killed, the kings
"of the people have killed their rulers:"\* \*\\they are
come [even] unto Jazer\\; meaning either the Chaldean,
army, or the Moabites, who had fled hither; or rather
this is to be understood of the vines of Sibmah, express-
ing the excellency and large spread of them, which
reached even to Jazer; which, as Jerom says {f}, was fifteen
miles from Heshbon, called Jaazer, \\#Nu 21:32 32:35 Jos 21:39\\:
\*\\they wandered [through] the
wilderness\\; the wilderness of Moab, \\#De 2:8\\ not the
lords of the Heathen, nor the Moabites, but the vines
and their branches, which crept along, and winded to
and fro, as men wander about: \*\\her branches are
stretched out\\; that is, the branches of the vine
Sibmah: \*\\they are gone over the sea\\; the Dead Sea,
called the sea of Jazer, \\#Jer 48:32\\ or rather a lake
near that city.
\*Ver. 9. \\Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of
Jazer the vine of Sibmah\\, &c.] That is, bewail the
one, as he had done the other, both places with the
fruits about them being destroyed by the enemy; or
%therefore with weeping I will bewail% (most vehemently lament,
an usual Hebraism)

{b} \^wydb Nk al\^ %non sicut, fortitudo ejus%; so some in Vatablus.
{c} \^wydb Nk-al\^ %non rectum divinorum ejus%, Vitringa.
{d} \^yvyval\^ %de lagenis Kir-hareseth gemetis, ubique confractae
    sunt%, De Dieu; %propter dolia Cir-hareseth gemetis%; so some in
    Vatablus.
{e} Geograph. l. 5. c. 19.
{f} De locis Hebraicis, fol. 92. G.