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Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, The LORD says: “Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.
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Verse 28. Cedar and Asor were parts of Arabia; which, with Moab, Ammon, Edom, and so forth were all brought under the yoke of Nabuchodonosor. Challoner.—We know nothing of the situation of Asor, which means “a court.” Calmet.—It might be the flying camp (Theod.) of the Saracens, (Saint Jerome in Is. xxi. 16) who dwelt under tents like the hordes of Tartars, the Ethiopian emperor, and the mogul. Yet this seems to have been a fixed habitation. verse 30. 33.—East; the Desert Arabia. verse 32. Calmet.—Cedar was the son of Ismael, and Asor the chief city of the Agarens. Worthington.
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