The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Study Helps
Interpretation
Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own coin.
Glossary
- Arabah Place
- A name given to Abi-albon, or, as elsewhere called, Abiel, one of David’s warriors ( 2 Sam. 23:31 ; 1 Chr. 11:32 ), probably as being an inhabitant of Arabah ( Josh. 15:61 ), a town in the wilderness of Judah.
- Bashan Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Saham al Jawlan.
- Lebanon Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Jezzine.
- Mount Carmel Place
- Biblical mountain. Modern identification: Mount Carmel.
- Sharon Place
- A plain, a level tract extending from the Mediterranean to the hill country to the west of Jerusalem, about 30 miles long and from 8 to 15 miles broad. Modern identification: Sharon Plain.