[841] 2 Chron. xxxvi. 13; Jer. lii. 3.
[842] Ezek. xvii. 15, 16, 18, 19.
[843] Ezek. xvii. 7-10.
[844] Jer. xlvi. 17.
[845] Another form of belomancy is still commonly practised among the Arabs. Three arrows are placed in a vessel: on one of them is written, "My God permits me"; on another, "My God forbids me"; the third is blank. They are then shaken, and the decision is guided by the one which falls out first. Comp. Homer, Iliad, iii. 316; Speaker's Commentary, ad loc.
[846] Ezek. xxi. 28-32.
[847] An allusion to the restoration of Jeconiah or his descendants, and to the far-off Messiah, meek and lowly.
[848] Ezek. iv. 1-3.
[849] Jer. xxxvii. 3.
[850] Ezek. vii. 16.