[213] Striking hands was a sign of good faith (Job xvii. 3; Prov. xxii. 26).
[214] He did it "in subtilty" (בְצָקְבָה). This substantive occurs nowhere else, but is connected with the name Jacob. LXX., ἐν πτερνισμῷ, "in taking by the heel," with reference to the name Jacob, "supplanter."
[215] Lit., "mouth to mouth." LXX., στόμα εἰς στόμα.
[216] Ver. 22, מֶלְהָּהַה, Vestiarum, occurs here only. The LXX. omits it or puts it in Greek letters. Targum, κάμπτραι, "chests" Sil. Italicus (iii. 23) describes the robes of the priests of the Gaditanian Hercules,—
"Nec discolor ulli,
Ante aras cultus; velantur corpora lino
Et Pelusiaco præfulget stamine vertex."
Keil, ad loc.
It was a mixture of "the rich dye of Tyre and the rich web of Nile."
[217] The phrase may be impersonal, "when one [i.e., they] had finished the sacrifice"; but the narrative seems to imply that Jehu offered it himself (LXX., ὡς συνετέλεσαν ποιοῦντες τὴν ὁλοκαύτωσιν Vulg., cum completum esset holocaustum).
[218] A.V., images; R.V., pillars.
[219] Comp. Ezra vi. 11; Dan. ii. 5.
[220] Amos i. 11.