Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/6_100.lzh/6_120.TXT

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mentioned by Jarchi do, governors, princes, and rulers;
and Kimchi{b} thinks they are the titles of the Baby-
loninn princes spoken of in Jeremiah, as Nebuzar-adan.
Nebushasban, Rab-saris, ,l'tab-mag, &c- Jet. xxxix. 3,
13, but with others they are the proper names of per-
sons or p. laces: and so the Targum calls them, Pe-
kodaites, Shoaites, and Koaites.; that is, the inhabit-
ants of places so called; and certain it is that Pekod
was a province of Babylon, Jer. i. 21: which, acCording
to Junius, lay between the two rivers Tigris andLy-
cus, and in which was the famous city of Nineveh;
and, according t6 him, Shoa, or the Shoaites, lay be-
tween the rivers Lycus and Gorgus, among where
were the Adiabeni, and the town called Sial by Pto-
lemy; and the Koaites were situated in 'the inward
part of Assyria, by Arbelitis, where formerly was the
fortitled town of Koah, by historians called Gangs;
and by 8trabo Gaugamela. Grotius thinks that Pekod
are the Bactriani; and that Shoa is Sial in Armenia
with Ptolemy; and that Koa is Choana of Media, with
the same Ptolemy ; but, be they who they will, they
were such people as were to come with the Chaldean
army against the Jews: and all the ASsyrians with
them: which were now one people with the Chaldeans
and Babyloninns, by whom formerly the ten tribes
were carried captive: aa of them desirable young men,
captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them
riding upon horses; persons of high rank and dignity,
in chief offices at court or in the camp, all in the
bloom and strength of youth; men of name and
renown tbr their banour and valour; and all well-
mounted, a famous cavalry of them; and who
fore were lovely on these accounts, when they were
their gallants and lovers, their .confederates and allies,
but now formidable and terrible being their enemies;
see vet. 5, 6, l 2.
Ver. 24. And they shall come against thee with chariots,
wagg'ons, and wheels, &c.] With chariots, in which were
their princes and great men, their chief commanders,
generals, and captains, and in which they fought, as
was usual in those times; and with waggons, to carry
their provisions and warlike stores; and with wheels,
that is, either with chariots and waggons that"ran
upon wheels, or with wheels for' them in case they
should break down; the first of these words here,
according to some Jewish interpreters, as Donesh in
Jarchi, signifies warlike instruments in general; and
the second word is used for chariots: and so the
whole is paraphrased by the Targum, "and they
"shall come against thee with instruments of war,
", with chariots and wheels ;" all which. denotes bow
well prepared they should be, and with what swift-
ness they would come: andwithan assembly of people,
which shah set against thee buckler, and shield, and
helmet, round about; a multitude of people, a vast
army gathered out of all the provinces of Babylon,
having bucklers arid shields about their bodies, and
helmets on their heads. to protect and defend them;
and these should surround the city of Jerusalem. So
the Targum, "an army of people, armed with shields
"and helmets, shall set themselves against thee round
"about :" and I will set judgment before them, and they
shall judge thee. according to their .judgments; that
is, I will deliver you into their hands, and they
shall judge and condemn you.; not according to my
laws and yours, but according to their own laws.
according to the customs and usages among them,
according to the law of nations; they shall deal with
you as rebels and covenant-breakers, such Zedekiah
was; he broke covenant with the king of Babylon.
and rebelled against him: and this was fu!fi!led when
he fell into his hands, and when he slew his children
 before his face, and then put out his eyes.
Ver. 25. And I will set my jealousy against thee, a,d
they shah deal furiously with thee, &c.] As a jealous
husband, enraged against his adulterous wife, falls
upon her in his fury, and uses her with great severity;
so the Jews. having committed spiritual fornication.
that is, idolatry, and departed from the Lord, he
threatens to stir up the fury of his jealousy, and pu-
nish them severely by the Chaldeans, as follows: they
shall take away thy nose and thieve ears, and thy rem-
nant shall fall by the sword; as gallants use their har-
lots when they leave .them, or jealous husbands their
adulterous wives, disfiguring them, that they may be
marked and known what they are, and be despised by
others; and as has been the custom in some countries.
particularly with the Egyptians, to cut otf the noses of
adulterous persons; here it is.to be understood figura-
tively:. by the nose, according to Jarchi, Kimchi, and
Ben Melech, is meant the ldng, who is higher than
his people, as the nose is the highest part in a
man's face; and by the ears the priest. who caused
.a noise to be heard when he entered into the
temple with his bells; or rather because it was the
priest's office to attend to the word of God, and teach
it the people; in general, these denote every thing
that was excellent among' the Jews, their city, tem-
ple, king, kingdom, princes, priests, and prophets.
which should be demolished and removed; and by the
remnant is meant the common people, that should
come into the hands of the Chaldeans, and fall by their
sword. So the Targum paraphrases it, "thy princes
'" and thy nobles shall go into captivity, and thy peo
"pie shall be killed with the sword :" they shall take
thy sons and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be de-
voured by thefire; take and carry their sons and daughters
captive, anti burn with fire the city left by them. Thus
the Targum," they shall carry thy sons and daughters
"captive, and the beauty of ,by land shall be burnt
"with fire;" that is, the city of Jerusalem, the temple.
th$ king's palaces, the houses of,he great men, and
others in it, which were all burnt with fire when
-taken by the Chaldeans, Jet. !ii. 13.
Ver. 26. They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes.
&c.] As such who are taken captives are usually
served: and take away ,by fair jewels; their ornaments
of every kind,: or the vessels of thy glory{e}; Kirnchi
observes this may be meant either of the garments of
the priests, and the vessels of the sanctuary; or of ,tie

{b} So R. Sol, Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 51.1.
{c} \^Ktrapt ylk\^ vasa gloriae tuae, V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; instru-
menta ornatus tui, Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator; vasa or-
natus tui, Starckius.