* they sat.
# Es 3:15; Ps 14:4; Pr 30:20; Am 6:6|
* Ishmeelites.
# 28,36; 16:11,12; 25:1-4,16-18; 31:23; Ps 83:6|
* Gilead.
# 31:21; 43:11; Jer 8:22|
* spicery.
{Nechoth,} is rendered by the LXX. "incense;" Syriac,
"resin;" Samaritan, "balsam;" Acquila, "storax;" which is
followed by Bochart. This drug is abundant in Syria, and
here Moses joins with it resin, honey, and myrrh; which
agrees with the nature of the storax, which is the resin of a
tree of the same name, of a reddish colour, and peculiarly
pleasant fragrance.
* balm
{Tzeri,} which in Arabic, as a verb, is to flow, seems to be
a common name, as balm or balsam with us, for many of those
oily, resinous substances, which flow spontaneously, or by
incision, from various trees or plants; accordingly the
ancients have generally interpreted it resin.
* myrrh.
{Lot,} is probably, as Junius, De Dieu, Celsius, and Ursinus
contend, the same as the Arabic {ladan}, Greek [ladanon,] and
Latin {ladanum}.
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