On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
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On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
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She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
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She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the stronghold.
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- 1 Samuel 14:4 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock,…
Job 39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
Ver. 28. She dwelleth and abideth upon the rock, &c.] Which are counterscarfed and encompassed with precipices; there she makes her nest in the clefts and crags. The reason whereof see in the note on the verse before.
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Upon the crag of the rock] She nestleth not upon the sand, as the ostrich doth, Job 39:14. And in this so great difference of birds and other creatures is seen the wonderful power and providence of God.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Which she doth partly for the security of herself…
Which she doth partly for the security of herself and her young; and partly that she may thence have the better prospect to discern her prey, as it followeth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the…
She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. Where she and her young are safe: so Pliny (r) says, eagles make their nests in rocks, even in the precipices of them, as the philosopher quoted in the preceding verse; and here on the tooth, edge, or precipice of the rock, which is inaccessible, and so like a strong fortified place.
(r) Nat. Hist. l. 10. 3.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 28. Upon the crag of the rock] שן…
Verse 28. Upon the crag of the rock] שן סלע shen sela, the tooth of the rock, i.e., some projecting part, whither adventurous man himself dares not follow her.
And the strong place.] ומצודה umetsudah. Mr. Good translates this word ravine, and joins it to Job 39:29, thus: "And thence espieth the ravine: her eyes trace the prey afar off."
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain She dwelleth and abideth on the rock - “He…
She dwelleth and abideth on the rock - “He rarely quits the mountains to descend into the plains. Each pair live in an insulated state, establishing their quarters on some high and precipitous cliff, at a respectful distance from others of the same species.” “Edin. Ency.” They seem to occupy the same cliff, or place of abode, during their lives; and hence, it is that they are represented as having a permanent abode on the lofty rock. In Damir it is said that the blind poet Besar, son of Jazidi, being asked, if God would give him the choice to be an animal, what he would be, said that he would wish to be nothing else than an “alokab,” a species of the eagle, for they dwelt in places to which no wild animal could have access. Scheutzer, “Phys. Sac. in loc.” The word rendered “abideth” means commonly “to pass the night,” and here refers to the fact that the high rock was its constant abode or dwelling. By night as well as by day, the eagle had his home there.
Upon the crag of the rock - Hebrew, “Upon the tooth of the rock” - from the resemblance of the crag of a rock to a tooth.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Access. See Abdias iv.; Aristotle, anim. ix. 32.
Access. See Abdias iv.; Aristotle, anim. ix. 32.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain abideth--securely (Psa 91:1); it occupies the same abode mostly…
abideth--securely (Psa 91:1); it occupies the same abode mostly for life.
crag--literally, "tooth" (Sa1 14:5, Margin).
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strong place--citadel, fastness.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 28. Crag of the rock — Literally, tooth of…
28. Crag of the rock — Literally, tooth of the rock.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain She dwelleth and abideth on the rook, upon the…
She dwelleth and abideth on the rook, upon the crag of the rook, and the strong place; literally, the tooth of the rock. The craggy summits of rocks bear a resemblance to the fangs of a tooth. Hence we have in France the Dent du Chat, and in Switzerland the Dent de Jaman and the Dent du Midi.
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