[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.