2. fort--rather, "watch-tower"
(Jer 52:4)
wherein the besiegers could watch the movements of the besieged
[GESENIUS]. A wall of circumvallation
[Septuagint and ROSENMULLER]. A kind of
battering-ram [MAURER]. The first view is best.
a mount--wherewith the Chaldeans could be defended from missiles.
battering-rams--literally, "through-borers." In
Eze 21:22
the same Hebrew is translated "captains."
JFB.
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