[472] i. 1–5.
[473] E.g. in the New Testament: Mark iii. 8.
[474] So too Nowack, 1897.
[475] Deut. ii. 5, 8, 12.
[476] Ezek. xxxv., esp. 2 and 15.
[477] iv. 21: yet Uz fails in LXX., and some take ארץ to refer to the Holy Land itself. Buhl, Gesch. der Edomiter, 73.
[478] It can hardly be supposed that Edom’s treacherous allies were Assyrians or Babylonians, for even if the phrase “men of thy covenant” could be applied to those to whom Edom was tributary, the Assyrian or Babylonian method of dealing with conquered peoples is described by saying that they took them off into captivity, not that they sent them to the border.
[479] So even Cornill, Einl.³
[480] This in answer to Wellhausen on the verse.