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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 65:11 - 65:11
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holy mountain - Moriah, on which the temple was.
troop - rather “Gad,” the Babylonian god of fortune, the planet Jupiter, answering to Baal or Bel; the Arabs called it “the Greater Good Fortune”; and the planet Venus answering to Meni, “the Lesser Good Fortune” [Gesenius, Kimchi, etc.]. Tables were laid out for their idols with all kinds of viands, and a cup containing a mixture of wine and honey, in Egypt especially, on the last day of the year [Jerome].
drink offering - rather, “mixed drink.”
number - rather, “Meni”; as goddess of fortune she was thought to number the fates of men. Vitringa understands Gad to be the sun; Meni the moon, or Ashtaroth or Astarte (1Ki 11:33).