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upon EZEKIEL. 1 1
17. as it was by the Ammonites, who derived Chapter
their Original from Lot, an Inhabitant of Sodom. XVI.
See 1 Kings xi. 7. O'V'NJ
Ibid. Tour Mother was an Hittite, &:c] See
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Ver. 46. e/^/J £&/#? tfZ^r 5i/?^r is Samaria, fie Ver. 46.
and her 'Daughters that dwell at thy Left Hand,
&-C.] Samaria is called the elder Sifter to Jerufalem,
as being the Capital City of the Kingdom of
IJrael, a more large and potent Kingdom than that
ofjudah, of which Jerufalem was the Metropolis.
She likewife led the way to that Idolatry which afterward
infecled the whole Nation, forfaking the
Worfhip which God had appointed in his Temple,
and fetting up the Idolatry of the Golden Calves.
Samaria lay Northward of 'Jerufalem, and Sodom
Southward, which two Quarters of the World are
exprefled by the Right and Left, in the Hebrew
Language, being placed in fuch a Pofition to thofe
that fet their Faces Eaftward. So the Phrafe is to
be underftood, Gen. xiii. 9. If thou wilt go to the
Left Hand, I will go to the Right : where the
Targum expounds the Words, If thou wilt go to
the North, I willgo to the South. The fame way
of Speaking is (till ufed in the ancient 'BritiJJ; or
Weljh Language, as Archbifhop Ufier obferves
in his Trimord. EccL "Britan. p. $06. Edit. Fol,
Samaria and Sodom are defcribed as Metropoles,
or Mother Cities : So their Daughters may be expounded
not only of the Inhabitants of each City,
but likewife of the leller Towns which were antiently
under the Jurifdi&ion of the greater. Com-
pare Chap. xxvi. 4, 6. Jerem, xlix. 2.
Q, 2 Ver.