51–67. Gradual declension of Israel till the Temple is destroyed. 51. forsook … their house. True only of the Ten Tribes. that their house, ‘that’ in Eth. = τόν in Gk. called … and sent, i.e. the prophets. slay. Cf. 1Kings 18:4. 52. Elijah’s escape and translation. Cf. 93:8. from the sheep gm. Other MSS. ‘from the hands of the sheep’. 54. the Lord + ‘of the sheep’ β. invited that slaughter and betrayed His place, called in the heathen to help them and so betrayed Jerusalem. Cf. 2Kings 16:7. 55.
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