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^Commentary
Chapter the Prophets, that In thofe Dap 'Ifrael JJjould
XXXVUI. dwell fafety, and none fhould make them afraid,
L^"V~V See Chap, xxxiv. 28. Jerem. xxiii. 6. and the
Note there.
Ver. 1 2. Ver. 1 2. To turn thine Hand ufon the defolate
Tlaces that are now inhabited.] Judea is de-
fcribed as a Country that lay defolate before the
Jews return into it. See Chap, xxxvi. 34, 35.
After it had been for fome time reinhabited, Gog
and his AfTociates defigned to fall upon it with
all their Forces ;
in that Senfe to turn the Hand,
is taken. Ifa. i. 25. See the Note there.
Ibid. That dwell in the midft of the Land.]
In the Navel of the Land, as the Hebrew reads,
i. e . in Jerufalem, becaufe that flood in the mid-
dle of the Holy Land, and likewife was fituate
upon a rifing Ground, which the Hebrew Metaphorically
exprefles by the Navel. See Judg.
Yer. 13.
ix. 57.
Ver. 13. Sheba and *Dedan, and the Merchants
of TarffiifI)~~-fhaUfay unto thee, oArt thou
come to take affoil?] Thefe were People that
dealt much in Trade : the two former dwelling
in the Eaft, the latter often failing from the Spa.-
nifh Coafts into the Eaftern Parts ; they are
mentioned Chap.xxvii. 12, 1 5, 20, 22. as having
Commerce with Tyre, which bordered upon
Judea. Thofe Merchants affoon as they heard
of this intended Invafion, came into Gog's Camp
as to a Market, to buy both Perfons and Goods
which fhould come into the Conqueror's Power*
See the Note upon Chap. xxvi. 2.
Ibid;