[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).