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He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. The meanest in Manasses, and so forth Mark how the Lord chooses the humble (who are mean and little in their own eyes) for the greatest enterprises. Challoner.—Hebrew and Septuagint lit. “My millenary is poor, or lowly,” and so forth This term means a great family, from which many others spring, or a city inhabited by such. Bethlehem was of this description in Juda. Mic. 5:2. Ephra and the family of Abiezer were not the first in Manasses. Grotius observes, that Gedeon and Cincinnatus were called to the highest offices, when they least expected it.
The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
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