Genesis 19:11
with blindness.The word {sanverim,} rendered "blindness," and which occurs only here, and in 2 Ki 6:18, is supposed to denote dazzlings, deceptions, or confusions of sight from excessive light; being derived by Schultens, who is followed by Parkhurst, from the Arabic {sana,} to pour forth, diffuse, and nor, light. Dr. Geddes, to the same purpose, thinks it is compounded of the Arabic {sana,} which signifies a flash, and or, light. The Targums, in both places where it occurs, render it by eruptions, or flashes of light, or as Mercer, in Robertson, explains the Chaldee word, irradiations. 2Ki 6:18; Ac 13:11that they.Ec 10:15; Isa 57:10; Jer 2:362 Kings 6:18-20
Smite this people.Confound their sight, so that they may not know what they see; and so mistake one place for another. The word {sanverim,} rendered blindness, occurs only here and in Ge 19:11, on which see the Note. De 28:28; Job 5:14; Zec 12:4; Joh 9:39; 12:40; Ac 13:11; Ro 11:7 follow me. Heb. come ye after me.Mt 16:24; Mr 8:34; Lu 9:23I will bring.2Sa 16:18,19; Lu 24:16 open the eyes.17; Lu 24:31opened.Jud 20:40-42; Lu 16:23Luke 4:30
Joh 8:59; 10:39; 18:6,7; Ac 12:18Luke 24:31
their eyes.16; Joh 20:13-16vanished out of their sight. or, ceased to be seen of them.4:30; Joh 8:59John 5:13
he that.14:9had.8:59; Lu 4:30; 24:31a multitude being. or, from the multitude that was.John 10:39-40
31; 7:30,44; 8:59; Lu 4:29,30 the place.1:28; 3:26there.7:1; 11:54John 11:54
walked.4:1-3; 7:1; 10:40; 18:20went.7:4,10,13Ephraim.Ephraim appears to be the same city which is called Ephrain, 2 Ch 13:19 (where see the Note), and Ephron, Jos 15:9, which was situated eight miles north of Jerusalem, near Bethel, and apparently between that city and Jericho. Accordingly we find that a desert, or wilderness, extended from Jericho to Bethel (Jos 16:1), called the wilderness of Bethaven (Jos 18:12), in which Joshua and the Israelites slew the inhabitants of Ai. (Jos 8:24.) 2Sa 13:23; 2Ch 13:19
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