[236] 2 Kings xvi. 9.
[237] Ezek. xxvii. 18.
[238] Joel iii. 4.
[239] So Giesebrecht, with most of the ancient versions. A.V., R.V., with Masoretic Text, "not forsaken ... my joy," possibly meaning, "Why did not the inhabitants forsake the doomed city?"
[240] Magor-missabib: cf. xlvi. 5.
[241] I.e. cut off.
[242] 1 Peter i. 10, 11.
[243] See against the authenticity Driver's Introduction, in loco; and in support of it Speaker's Commentary, Streane (C.B.S.). Cf. also Sayce, Higher Criticism, etc., pp. 484-486.
[244] In xxvii. 1 we must read, "In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah," not Jehoiakim.
[245] xxix. 4-14.