Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
measuring-line— (Ezekiel 40:8; Zechariah 2:1).
Gareb—from a Hebrew root, "to scrape"; Syriac, "leprosy"; the locality outside of the city, to which lepers were removed.
Goath—from a root, "to toil," referring to the toilsome ascent there: outside of the city of David, towards the southwest, as Gareb was northwest [JUNIUS].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 31:39:
Isaiah 54:2
Ezekiel 39:29
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