[1417] Heb. _I will find me_; LXX. εὑρήσομεν ἑαυτοῖς.
[1418] Hebrew adds a gloss: _in Jerusalem_.
[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 אֵצֶלּ, the adverb _near by_.
[1439] Amos i. 1.