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A Commentary
Chapter who enjoy the Benefit of them, though their Con-
XLVI1. dition before were never fo defperate. The Word Rjo^v^v?
wrs and Rher are promifcuoufly ufed in this Verfe,
tho' fome of the JewiJJj Writers are of Opinion that
thefe Waters divide themfelves, and fome flow Eaftward,
and others Weftward : Which Opinion they
ground partly upon the Plural Number ufed in this
Verfe, but chiefly upon the Words of Zechariah,
Chapt.xiv. 8.
Ver. ic£ Ver. 10. And it Jhall come to pafs, that the Fi-
Jhers jhall fland upon it, from En-gaddi to En-eglaim.]
Engaddi was a Town that lay on the South-weft of
of the Lake of Sodom, or the Dead-Sea, called Hrtzezon-tamar,
Gen, xiv. 7. compared with 2 Chron,
xx. 2. En-eglaim, or En-gallim as St. Jsrom reads
the Word, is another on the EauMide of the fame
Lake, where Jordan falls into it j upon the Con-
lines of Moab, as may be conjedured from Ifa. xv.
8. which is confirmed by the Parallel Text in
Joel iii. 18. where it is faid that a Fountain Jhall
come forth of the Hou/e of the Lord, and Jhall water
the Valley of Shittim : Which we know was in the
Country of Moab : See Num. xxv. 1. So thefe
two Places denote the whole extent of that Lake,
which the Prophet faith, fliall be full of Fifh, ftill
profecuting the Allegory begun in the foregoing
Verfes.
Ibid. They Jhall be a Place to fpread forth their
Nets.'] Thefe two Towns fliall afford Conve-
nience for the Fiihers to hang out their Nets a
drying : See Chapt. xxvi. 5.
Ibid. Their Fijh Jhall be according to their Kinds,
as the Fijh of the great Sea.] This Lake for plenty
of Jriih may compare with thsMediterranean-Sea,
called