ripped up, &c. Foretold in Hos_13:16. 2Ki_8:12; 2Ki_8:15, 2Ki_8:16.
that they might, &c. Compare Jer_49:1:14 Rabbah. Now 'Amman (on the highlands of Gilead), "the city of waters", twenty-five miles north of the Dead Sea. Compare 2Sa_11:1, and 2Sa_12:26, 2Sa_12:27. Jer_49:2. Reference to Pentateuch (Deu_3:10, Deu_3:11). App-92.
shouting = a great war-cry.
the day of battle: i.e. the day of their foe's tumultuous assault.