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no A Commentary
Chapter ences, by giving thy Country into the Hand of
XVI. thine Enemies, as it follows.
C/"V"\J Ibid. (And delivered thee into the Will of them
that hate thee, the 'Daughters of the ThiU/tines.*]
As a Punifhment of the Idolatries which King
oAhaz introduced among you: See Ver. 57. and
xChron. xxviii. 18, 19. The Daughters of the
Thiliftines are put here for the l*hiliftines, as the
Daughters of Samaria, Sodom and the S) riatisftznd
for the People of thofe Places, Ver. 46, 47, 57. to
carry on the Allegory and Comparifon between
them and Jerufalem, being all of them defcribed as
fo many Lewd Women proftituting themfelves
to Idols. See Ver. 41. By the fame Metaphor
Samaria and Sodom are called Sifters to Jerujalem,
Ver. 46.
Ibid. Which are aflamed of thy lewd Way.~\
Thofe have not forfaken the Religion of their Countrey
as you Jews have done, nor have been fo fond
of Foreign Idolatries : Compare Chap. v. 7. and
Jerem. ii. 11. The Chaldee Paraphrafe explains
the Words to this Senfe, // 7 had fent my Trophets
to them, they would have been afiamed, but thou
art not converted. See Ver. 47, 48.
Ver. 28. Ver. 28. Thou haft flayed the Whore alfo with
the eAjfyrians.'] The Jews courted the Alliance of
their two potent Neighbours, the Egyptians and
eAjfyrians, as it ferved their prefent turn ; and to
ingratiate themfelves with them ferved their Idols
See Jer. ii. 1 8, $6. This is particularly recorded of
eAhaz : See 2 Kjngs wi. 10. 2 Chron. xxviii. 23.
Ver- 10. Ver. 29. Moreover thou haft multif lied thy Fornication
in the Land of Canaan unto Qhaldea.'] Or,
with