Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 34:7 - 34:7

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 34:7 - 34:7


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The unicorns, Heb. the reemim. But what kind of beast this is, whether that beast which is commonly called an unicorn, which seems to be but a fiction in the judgment of the learned, or a rhinoceros, or a wild ox or bull, it is needless to trouble the ordinary reader about it; and the learned may consult my Latin Synopsis upon Num_23:22 about it. It is confessed that it was a beast of great strength and fierceness; and it is certain that it is metephorically used in this place, to signify their princes and potentates.



Shall come down; shall be humbled and cast down. The LXX. and Syriac render it,



they shall fall down, as such beasts do when they have received a deadly blow. With them; with the lambs, and goats, and rams, last mentioned, Isa_34:6.



With fatness; with the fat of the slain sacrifices, which shall he mingled with it.