3. Go forth--out of the city, to the place where Ahaz was
superintending the works for defense and the cutting off of the water
supply from the enemy, and securing it to the city. So
Isa 22:9;
2Ch 32:4.
Shearjashub--that is, A remnant shall return
(Isa 6:13).
His very name (compare
Isa 7:14;
Isa 8:3)
was a standing memorial to Ahaz and the Jews that the nation should
not, notwithstanding the general calamity
(Isa 7:17-25;
Isa 8:6-8),
be utterly destroyed
(Isa 10:21, 22).
conduit--an aqueduct from the pool or reservoir for the supply of
the city. At the foot of Zion was Fount Siloah
(Isa 8:6;
Ne 3:15;
Joh 9:7),
called also Gihon, on the west of Jerusalem
(2Ch 32:30).
Two pools were supplied from it, the Upper, or Old
(Isa 22:11),
or King's
(Ne 2:14),
and the Lower
(Isa 22:9),
which received the superfluous waters of the upper. The upper pool is
still to be seen, about seven hundred yards from the Jaffa gate. The
highway leading to the fullers' field, which was in a position near
water for the purposes of washing, previous to drying and bleaching,
the cloth, was probably alongside the aqueduct.
JFB.
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