He said that he would burn up my borders, kill my young men with the sword, throw my nursing children to the ground, give my infants up as prey, and make my virgins a plunder.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 5. Mountains of Cilicia, and through the defiles of Libanus and Hermon, on the north of Palestine, by which road they were forced to come. The desert Arabia was impassable for a large army. Calmet.—North, including to the east. Bible. Isaiah 14:13. Jeremiah 1:13. Ezekiel 1:4.—Torrents, drinking them up, as Sennacherib boasted; (4 Kennicott. 19:24) and the Greek assert the same of the army of Xerxes. Herod. vii. 108.
Epotaque flumina Medo
Prandente. Juv x.
The Greek seems to insinuate that the Assyrians “stopped up the springs,” to distress the country, as Philopator did. Calmet.—Valleys. Greek “hills.”