[9] The Cimmerians are the Gomer of Scripture, the Gimirrâ'a of the cuneiform inscriptions.
[10] Ewald, Die Psalmen, 165.
[11] Zeph. ii. 4 sqq., עקרון תעקר ... עזה עזובה תהיה
[12] ספר התורה, 2 Kings xxii. 8; ספר הברית, 2 Kings xxiii. 2.
[13] Comparing the Hebrew verb with the Arabic
timuit, fastidivit. LXX., κἀγὼ ἠμέλησα αὐτῶν, Cf. Jer. iii. 14. Gesenius rendered fastidivit, rejecit.
[14] So rightly the Syriac, for Jehoiakim.
[15] i.e. To scent food afar off, like beasts of prey. There was no occasion to alter A.V.
[16] Even in the history of the transmission of ancient writings.