[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.