10.
(Jer 7:34;
Re 18:23).
The land shall be so desolated that even in the houses left standing
there shall be no inhabitant; a terrible stillness shall prevail; no
sound of the hand-mill (two circular stones, one above the
other, for grinding corn, worked by two women,
Ex 11:5;
Mt 24:41;
in daily use in every house, and therefore forbidden to be taken in
pledge,
De 24:6);
no night-light, so universal in the East that the poorest house
has it, burning all night.
candle--lamp
(Job 21:17; 18:6).
JFB.
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