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For; yet, or certainly, as the Hebrew particle is often to be rendered.
The inhabitant; one put for all, because all should fare alike.
Maroth: some say it is by transposing the letters put for Ramoth; others say it is, as the word imports, the grieving, imbittered cities; others take it for the proper name of some lesser place in Judah.
Waited carefully; long, earnestly, and patiently.
For good; for peace, prosperity, and what might make them happy.
Evil; of trouble, sword, famine, and pestilence, all sorts of evil comprised in this one:
Came down, in mighty tempests, or as a sweeping rain.
From the Lord; by his special command and charge, and as a punishment inflicted on them from heaven.
Unto the gate of Jerusalem; the flood of affliction by the Assyrian swallowed up other towns and cities, and swelled high to the head city Jerusalem, as partly by Sennacherib’s invasion, but more fully by Nebuchadnezzar’s besieging and taking Jerusalem, and carrying the citizens captive to Babylon.