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The higher ground for this strengthening of Israel in the time of Jeroboam was to be found in the compassion of God. The Lord saw the great oppression and helpless condition of Israel, and had not yet pronounced the decree of rejection. He therefore sent help through Jeroboam. מְאֹד מֹרֶה without the article, and governed by ישׂ אֳנִי (see Ewald, §293, a.), signifies very bitter, מָרָה having taken the meaning of מָרַר. This is the explanation adopted in all the ancient versions, and also by Dietrich in Ges. Lex. וגו עָצוּר וְאֶפֶס, verbatim from Deu 32:36, to show that the kingdom of Israel had been brought to the utmost extremity of distress predicted there by Moses, and it was necessary that the Lord should interpose with His help, if His people were not utterly to perish. דִבֶּר לֹא: He had not yet spoken, i.e., had not yet uttered the decree of rejection through the mouth of a prophet. To blot out the name under the heavens is an abbreviated expression for: among the nations who dwelt under the heavens.