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Zep_1:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, [that there shall be] the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.
Ver. 10. There shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate] Called also the first gate, Zec_14:10, whereat the Chaldeans entered, and caused a great hubbub, as in such a case is usual.
And an howling from the second] Called by the Chaldee paraphrast the bird gate; there was also one called the horse gate, Jer_31:40. Some understand the text, not of any gate, but of the second part of the city: for there was the upper town and the lower town (whence Jerusalem is of the dual number, Jerushalajim), and the tower of David, on the hill of Zion. Others, of the college where Huldah dwelt, 2Ki_22:14, a school of learning, as the Chaldee interpreteth it, and called Mishneh, as you would say, a place of repetition, or of catechizing the younger sort; with whom nothing sticks but what is repeated to them over and over, as the knife goeth over the whetstone. Shanan et Shauah repetere, sicut in acuendo. See Deu_6:7.
And a great crashing (or shivering, Heb. shebhor) from the hills] Gareb and Goath, Jer_31:39, and the rest that were round about Jerusalem, Psa_125:2. The prophet’s scope is to show that all places shall be full of tumult and outcry upon the approach of the enemy. They, that would not listen to the sweet voice of God, inciting and enticing them to repentance, have now their ears filled with hideous and horrid notes and noises.