take up this proverb. Reference to Pentateuch (Num_23:7, Num_23:24; Num_24:3, Num_24:15, Num_24:20, Num_24:21, Num_24:23). Elsewhere only in Mic_2:4. Hab_2:6, and Job_27:1; Job_29:1.
proverb = triumph-song.
king of Babylon. Figure of speech Polyonymia. One of the names for the Antichrist. See note on Dan_7:8.
How. ! Figure of speech Chleuasmos.App-6.
golden city: or exactress of gold. Some, by reading (= R) for (= D) read "oppression".