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Tomorrow, go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 16. Six. Some translate “flowry ascent.” Calmet.—Prot. “the cliff of Ziz.” Bible.—If it had been Zin, we might understand the desert of stony Arabia, where Ptolemy places the town of Ziza. Calmet.—But we may recollect that the army was already advanced as far as Engaddi; (verse 2,) so that it seems to have lain nearer Jerusalem. Bible.—Jeruel, “the fear of God,” which name was given to the place, in consequence of the panic with which God struck the enemy. S. Jerom. Menochius.
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