Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Will I put my hook in thy nose - Et fraenum meum : Jonathan vocem metheg , interpretatus est zemam , i.e., annulum, sive uncum, eumque ferreum, quem infigunt naribus camelae: eoque trahitur, quoniam illa feris motibus agitur: et hoc est, quod discimus in Talmude; et camela cum annulo narium: scilicet, egreditur die sabbathi . "And my bridle: Jonathan interprets the word metheg by zemam , a ring, or that iron hook which they put in the nostrils of a camel to lead her about, check her in her restiveness, etc. And this is what we mean in the Talmud, when we say, And the camel with the ring of her nostrils shall go out on the Sabbath day." - Jarchi in II Kings 19:28. Ponam circulum in naribus tuis . "I will put a ring in thy nostrils." - Jerome. Just as at this day they put a ring into the nose of the bear, the buffalo, and other wild beasts, to lead them, and to govern them when they are unruly. Bulls are often ringed thus in several parts of England. The Hindoos compare a person who is the slave of his wife to a cow led by the ring in her nose.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 37:29:
Isaiah 30:28
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