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Therefore; to chastise your pride, and defeat your hopes and resolutions.
Set up, Heb. exalt; advance their power, and give them success against him.
The adversaries of Rezin; the Assyrians, who, presently after this prophecy, fought and prevailed against him, 2Ki_16:7. He mentions Rezin, partly because he was confederate with Ephraim, and so his enemies were their enemies also, and partly because the Israelites trusted to his powerful assistance.
Against him; either,
1. Against Rezin last mentioned; or rather,
2. Against Ephraim or Israel, who may easily be understood either from the foregoing or following verse; for against them this prophecy is directed, and of them he speaks both in the next clause of this verse, and in the next verse; and it seems reasonable that him in this clause, and his in the next clause, should be understood of the same persons.
Join, Heb. mingle, i.e. unite them so that they shall agree together to fight against Israel, and shall invade him from several quarters.
His; not Rezin’s, but Ephraim’s, as appears from the next verse, which is added to explain this clause.