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Isa_16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Ver. 1. Send ye the lamb.] For prevention of those lions, {Isa_15:9} submit to Hezekiah, your right liege lord, a lamb, i.e., your appointed number of tribute lambs, in token of homage. {2Sa_8:2 2Ki_3:4} But especially make your peace with God, the Ruler of the whole world, {1Ch_29:12} by paying him homage and fealty, that there may be a lengthening of your tranquillity.
From Selo in the wilderness.] Otherwise called Petra (because beset with rocks), whence the country it stood in was called Arabia Petraea. {a} Some make it the head city of Moab, others of Edom, a place, it seemeth, that was full of cattle, and by king Amaziah, who took it, called Jokteel. {2Ki_14:7}
{a} Strabo, lib. xvi.