15. Yet will I bring an heir unto thee--rather, "the heir." As
thou art now occupied by possessors who expelled the former inhabitants,
so will I bring "yet" again the new possessor, namely, the
Assyrian foe. Other heirs will supplant us in every inheritance but that
of heaven. There is a play upon the meaning of Mareshah, "an
inheritance": there shall come the new heir of the inheritance.
Adullam the glory of Israel--so called as being superior in
situation; when it and the neighboring cities fell, Israel's glory was
gone. MAURER, as the Margin, translates,
"the glory of Israel" (her chief citizens: answering to "thy delicate
children,"
Mic 1:16)
"shall come in flight to Adullam." English Version better
preserves the parallelism, "the heir" in the first clause answering to
"he" in the second.
JFB.
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