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Woe. The second of the six woes.
Ariel = either a lion of GOD (El, App-4. IV) (2Sa_23:20); or the altar-hearth of GOD (Eze_43:15, Eze_43:16; and the Moabite Stone, line 12, App-54). Jerusalem is called Har-el on old Egyptian monuments.
the city. Put by Figure of speech Polyonymia for Jerusalem. "City" is in the construct state: = city of [the spot] where David camped.
dwelt = encamped.
year. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for festival.
let them kill, &c.: or, let the feasts go round. Figure of speech Eironeia. App-6.