12-15. few . . . in number--alluding to Jacob's words
(Ge 34:30),
"I being few in number."
yea, very few--literally, "as a few," that is, like fewness itself
(compare
Isa 1:9).
strangers--sojourners in the land of their future inheritance, as in
a strange country
(Heb 11:9).
JFB.
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