[1357] Of these cf. “Mal.” iii. 5; the late Jer. xliv. 8 ff.; Isa. lxv. 3-5; and, in the Priestly Law, Lev. xix. 31, xx. 6.
[1358] _Z.A.T.W._, I. 60. He compares this verse with 1 Sam. xv. 23. In Ezek. xxi. 26 they give oracles.
[1359] חזיז, _lightning-flash_, only here and in Job xxviii. 26, xxxviii. 25.
[1360] LXX. read: _in season early rain and latter rain_.
[1361] נסעו, used of a nomadic life in Jer. xxxi. 24 (23), and so it is possible that in a later stage of the language it had come to mean to wander or stray. But this is doubtful, and there may be a false reading, as appears from LXX. ἐξηράνθησαν.
[1362] For יענו read וינעו. The LXX. ἐκακώθησαν read וירעו.
[1363] There can therefore be none of that connection between the two pieces which Kirkpatrick assumes (p. 454 and note 2).
[1364] פקד על
[1365] פקד את
[1366] See above, p. 444.
[1367] x. 5, בוס, Eckardt, p. 82; 6, 12, גִּבֵּר, Pi., cf. Eccles. x. 10, where it alone occurs besides here; 5, 11, הבישו in passive sense.
[1368] As we should say, _bell-wethers_: cf. Isa. xiv. 9, also a late meaning.
[1369] So LXX., reading כי־יפקד for כי־פקד.
[1370] _Corner-stone_ as name for a chief: cf. Judg. xx. 2; 1 Sam. xiv. 38; Isa. xix. 13. _Stay_ or _tent-pin_, Isa. xxii. 23. _From Him_, others _from them_.
[1371] Read בַּגִּבֹּרִים and כְּטִיט (Wellhausen).
[1372] Read וַהֲשִׁבוֹתִים for the Mass. וְהוֹשְׁבוֹתִים, _and I will make them to dwell_.
[1373] רחמתים and אלהיהם ,זנחתים and אענם, keywords of Hosea i.—iii.
[1374] LXX.; sing. Heb.
[1375] Changing the Heb. points which make the verb future. See Nowack’s note.
[1376] With LXX. read וְחִיּוּ for Mass. וְחָיוּ.
[1377] See above, pp. 451, 471.
[1378] So LXX.; Mass. sing.
[1379] Heb. צרה, _narrow sea_: so LXX., but Wellhausen suggests מצרים, which Nowack adopts.
[1380] גברתם for גברתים.
[1381] For יתהלכו read יתהללו, with LXX. and Syr.
[1382] Heb. adds here a difficult clause, _for nobles are wasted_. Probably a gloss.
[1383] After the Ḳerî.
[1384] I.e. _rankness_; applied to the thick vegetation in the larger bed of the stream: see _Hist. Geog._, p. 484.
[1385] xi. 5, וַאעְשִׁר, Hiph., but intransitive, _grow rich_; 6, ממציא; 7, 10, נעם (?); 8, בחל, Aram.; 13, יְקָר, Aram., Jer. xx. 5, Ezek. xxii. 25, Job xxviii. 10; in Esther ten, in Daniel four times (Eckardt); xiii. 7, עמית, one of the marks of the affinity of the language of “Zech.” ix.—xiv. to that of the Priestly Code (cf. Lev. v. 21, xviii. 20, etc.), but in P it is concrete, here abstract; צערים; 8, גוע, see Eckardt, p. 85.
[1386] Jer. xxiii. 1-8; Ezek. xxxiv., xxxvii. 24 ff.: cf. Kirkpatrick P. 462.
[1387] Exod. xxi. 32.
[1388] LXX. _God of Hosts_.
[1389] Read plural with LXX.
[1390] That is the late Hebrew name for the heathen: cf. ix. 1.
[1391] Heb. רֵעֵהוּ, _neighbour_; read רֹעֵהוּ.
[1392] Many take this verse as an intrusion. It certainly seems to add nothing to the sense and to interrupt the connection, which is clear when it is removed.
[1393] Heb. לָכֵן עֲנִיֵּי הַצֹּאן, _wherefore the miserable of the flock_, which makes no sense. But LXX. read εἰς τήν Χαναάνιτην, and this suggests the Heb. לכנעני, _to the Canaanites_, i.e. _merchants_, _of the sheep_: so in ver. 11.
[1394] Lit. _Bands_.
[1395] The sense is here obscure. Is the text sound? In harmony with the context עמים ought to mean _tribes of Israel_. But every passage in the O.T. in which עמים might mean _tribes_ has been shown to have a doubtful text: Deut. xxxii. 8, xxxiii. 3; Hosea x. 14; Micah i. 2.