1; Under the type of a siege is shewn the time from the
defection of Jeroboam to the captivity.
9; By the provision of the siege, is shewn the hardness of the
famine.
* take.
# 5:1-17; 12:3-16; 1Sa 15:27,28; 1Ki 11:30,31; Isa 20:2-4|
# Jer 13:1-14; 18:2-12; 19:1-15; 25:15-38; 27:2-22; Ho 1:2-9; 3:1-5|
# Ho 12:10|
* a tile.
[Leb(8862)n(8368) [,] {levainah,} generally
denotes a brick, and Palladius informs us that the bricks in
common use among the ancients were "two feet long, one foot
broad, and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole
siege might be easily pourtrayed. Perhaps, however, it may
here denote a flat tile, like a Roman brick, which were
commonly used for tablets, as we learn from Pliny, Hist. Nat.
1. vii. c. 57.
* even.
# Jer 6:6; 32:31; Am 3:2|
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