Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
I have raised up one from the north - "That is, "says Kimchi, "the Messiah. The king of Assyria placed the ten tribes in Chalach and Chabar by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, II Kings 17:6, which lands lie northerly and easterly."
He shall come upon princes "He shall trample on princes" - For yabo , Le Clerc reads yebes , from the Chaldee, who seems to read both words. "Forte legend. vaiyebes vel vaiyirmos : sequitur ." "This should perhaps be read vaiyebes , or vaiyirmos : a samech follows." - Secker. See Nahum 3:14.
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