Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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Isaiah 44:4
They shall spring up as among the grass "They shall spring up as the grass among the waters" - bebeyn chatsir , "They shall spring up to the midst of, or rather, in among, the grass. "This cannot be right: eleven MSS., and thirteen editions, have kebeyn , or keben . Twenty-four MSS. read it without the yod , beben , in the son of the grass; and so reads the Chaldee; beben , in the son of the grass.
Twenty-four MSS. of Dr. Kennicott' s, thirty-three of De Rossi' s, and one of my own, with six editions, have this reading. The Syriac, mibbeyn . The true reading is in all probability kebeyn ; and the word mayim , which should have followed it, is lost out of the text: but it is happily supplied by the Septuagint, ̔ ̔ , as among the water "In every place where there is water, there is always grass; for water makes every thing grow in the east." Sir John Chardin' s note on I Kings 17:5. Harmer' s Observations 1:64.
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