Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 37:26

Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 37:26 - 37:26

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 37:26 - 37:26

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37:6 - 37:6
37:7 - 37:7
37:8 - 37:8
37:9 - 37:9
37:12 - 37:12
37:14 - 37:14
37:15 - 37:15
37:18 - 37:18
37:20 - 37:20
37:21 - 37:21
37:23 - 37:23
37:24 - 37:24
37:25 - 37:25
37:26 - 37:26
37:27 - 37:27
37:29 - 37:29
37:36 - 37:36
37:38 - 37:38

Lay waste defended cities into ruinous heaps “Lay waste warlike nations; strong fenced cities” - גלים נצים gallim nitstsim. It is not easy to give a satisfactory account of these two words, which have greatly embarrassed all the interpreters, ancient and modern. For גלים gallim I read גוים goyim, as the Septuagint do in this place, εθνη. The word נצים netsim the Vulgate renders in this place compugnantium; in the parallel place, 2Ki 19:25, pugnantium; and the Septuagint μαχιμων, fighting, warlike. This rendering is as well authorized as any other that I know of; and, with the reading of the Septuagint, perfectly clears up the construction. See the margin on all the preceding verses.