Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Lay waste defended cities into ruinous heaps "Lay waste warlike nations; strong fenced cities" - gallim nitstsim . It is not easy to give a satisfactory account of these two words, which have greatly embarrassed all the interpreters, ancient and modern. For gallim I read goyim , as the Septuagint do in this place, . The word netsim the Vulgate renders in this place compugnantium ; in the parallel place, II Kings 19:25, pugnantium ; and the Septuagint , fighting, warlike. This rendering is as well authorized as any other that I know of; and, with the reading of the Septuagint, perfectly clears up the construction. See the margin on all the preceding verses.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 37:26:
Isaiah 22:11
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