Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMcClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Besom
Subjects in this Topic:
( îִèְàֲèֵ ‹, matate, a sweeper), occurs only in the phrase “besom of destruction,” i.e. desolating broom, with which Babylonia is threatened (Isa_14:23); a metaphor frequent still in the East for utter ruin (Roberts, Orient. Illustr. in loc.).