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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 17:5 - 17:5
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harvestman, etc. - The inhabitants and wealth of Israel shall be swept away, and but few left behind just as the husbandman gathers the corn and the fruit, and leaves only a few gleaning ears and grapes (2Ki 18:9-11).
with his arm - He collects the standing grain with one arm, so that he can cut it with the sickle in the other hand.
Rephaim - a fertile plain at the southwest of Jerusalem toward Beth-lehem and the country of the Philistines (2Sa 5:18-22).