A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Micah, Zephaniah and Nahum (Biblia.com)

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of the valley of the Kidron; and Josephus (Wars, V, 4, 1) connected it with the Tyropœon Valley. Maurer, on the other hand, declared it to be a figurative name for Jerusalem as a whole (cf. Je. 21:13), which, surrounded by higher hills, was to serve as a mortar for the braying of her inhabitants. Most modern interpreters identify it with the upper part of the Tyropœon, partly because of the fitness of the title as applied to that region, partly because the context seems to make the Mortar a centre

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