[1416] Others read אַלְפֵי, thousands, i.e. districts.
[1417] Heb. I will find me; LXX. εὑρήσομεν ἑαυτοῖς.
[1418] Hebrew adds a gloss: in Jerusalem.
[1419] The population in time of war.
[1420] xii. 10, שׁפך רוח, not earlier than Ezek. xxxix. 29, Joel iii. 1, 2 (Heb.); תחנונים, only in Job, Proverbs, Psalms and Daniel; המר, an intrans. Hiph.; xiii. 1, מקור, fountain, before Jeremiah only in Hosea xiii. 15 (perhaps a late intrusion), but several times in post-exilic writings instead of pre-exilic באר (Eckardt); נִדָּה only after Ezekiel; 3, cf. xii. 10, דקר, chiefly, but not only, in post-exilic writings.
[1421] See especially xii. 12 ff., which is very suggestive of the Priestly Code.
[1422] Hist. Geog., Chap. XIX. On the name plain of Megiddo see especially notes, p. 386.
[1423] 2 Chron. xxxv. 22 ff.
[1424] Another explanation offered by the Targum is the mourning for “Ahab son of Omri, slain by Hadad-Rimmon son of Tab-Rimmon.”
[1425] LXX. gives for Hadad-Rimmon only the second part, ῥοῶν.