For the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. Galaad, the head of Libanus. By Galaad, a rich and fruitful country, is here signified the royal palace of the kings of the house of David; by Libanus, a high mountain abounding in cedar-trees, the populous city of Jerusalem. Challoner. Worthington. Theodor.—Both mountains are connected. Saint Jerome Strabo xvi.—Yet the proper Galaad was at some distance, and on the side of Ammon very barren. The palaces had arisen from a miserable state to resemble Libanus. They shall surely be destroyed. Calmet.—The advantageous situation of Jerusalem should not protect it, no more than it had done Galaad. 4 Kennicott. 15:29. Jun. Grot.