16. flee--not as fugitives, but we will speed our course;
namely, against the Assyrians, by the help of cavalry supplied by Egypt
(Isa 31:1).
This was expressly against the Mosaic law
(De 17:16;
see on
Isa 2:7;
Ho 14:3).
shall . . . flee--literally, "before your enemies"; their sin and its
punishment correspond.
JFB.
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