Isa 15:2 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 2. He is gone to Bajith, and to Dibon ] alah habbayith , should be rendered, he is gone to the HOUSE , i.e., to their chief temple, where they practiced idolatry. Dibon was the name of a tower where also was an idolatrous temple; thither they went to weep and pray before their idols, that they might interpose and save them from their calamities. So R. D. Kimchi . He is gone to Bajith and to Dibon : but Bishop Lowth reads Beth Dibon; this is the name of one place; and the two words are to be joined together, without the vau intervening. So the Chaldee and Syriac . This reading is not supported by any MS. or Version: but some MSS., instead of ar , have ir, a city , others have ad, unto , and some editions have al, upon . But all these help little, though they show that the place puzzled both the scribes and the editors . On all their heads shall be baldness , &c.-"On every head there is baldness," &c.] Herodotus, ii. 36, speaks of it as a general practice among all men, except the Egyptians, to cut off their hair as a token of mourning. "Cut off thy hair, and cast it away," says Jeremiah, , "and take up a lamentation." τουτονυκαιγεραςοιονοιζυροιοσιβροτοισι κειρασθαιτεκομηνβαλεεινταποδακρυπαρειων HOM. Odyss . iv. 197. "The rites of wo Are all, alas! the living can bestow; O'er the congenial dust enjoined to shear The graceful curl, and drop the tender tear." POPE. On every head .-For roshaiv , read rosh . So the parallel place, , and so three MSS., one ancient. An ancient MS. reads al col rosh . Five read bechol rosh, on every head , with the Septuagint and Arabic . AND every head . The vau, and , is found in thirty MSS., in three editions, and in the Syriac, Vulgate , and Chaldee . Cut off -"Shorn."] The printed editions, as well as the MSS., are divided on the reading of this word. Some have geduah, shorn , others geruah, diminished . The similitude of the letters daleth and resh has likewise occasioned many mistakes. In the present case, the sense is pretty much the same with either reading. The text of has the latter, diminished . The former reading is found in twelve of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., forty of De Rossi's , and two of my own. A great number of editions have the same reading.

‏ Isaiah 15:2

Verse 2. He is gone to Bajith, and to Dibon] alah habbayith, should be rendered, he is gone to the HOUSE, i.e., to their chief temple, where they practiced idolatry. Dibon was the name of a tower where also was an idolatrous temple; thither they went to weep and pray before their idols, that they might interpose and save them from their calamities. So R. D. Kimchi. He is gone to Bajith and to Dibon: but Bishop Lowth reads Beth Dibon; this is the name of one place; and the two words are to be joined together, without the vau intervening. So the Chaldee and Syriac. This reading is not supported by any MS. or Version: but some MSS., instead of ar, have ir, a city, others have ad, unto, and some editions have al, upon. But all these help little, though they show that the place puzzled both the scribes and the editors.

On all their heads shall be baldness, &c.-"On every head there is baldness," &c.] Herodotus, ii. 36, speaks of it as a general practice among all men, except the Egyptians, to cut off their hair as a token of mourning. "Cut off thy hair, and cast it away," says Jeremiah, Jer 7:29, "and take up a lamentation."

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HOM. Odyss. iv. 197.

"The rites of wo

Are all, alas! the living can bestow;

O'er the congenial dust enjoined to shear

The graceful curl, and drop the tender tear."

POPE.

On every head.-For roshaiv, read rosh. So the parallel place, Jer 48:37, and so three MSS., one ancient. An ancient MS. reads al col rosh. Five read bechol rosh, on every head, with the Septuagint and Arabic. AND every head. The vau, and, is found in thirty MSS., in three editions, and in the Syriac, Vulgate, and Chaldee.

Cut off-"Shorn."] The printed editions, as well as the MSS., are divided on the reading of this word. Some have geduah, shorn, others geruah, diminished. The similitude of the letters daleth and resh has likewise occasioned many mistakes. In the present case, the sense is pretty much the same with either reading. The text of Jer 48:37 has the latter, diminished. The former reading is found in twelve of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., forty of De Rossi's, and two of my own. A great number of editions have the same reading.