And there was also, &c.] Or, Now there was also. as Vers. 8. For these words are not part of the speech of those wellminded persons, vers. 17. who pleaded in the prophets behalf: but of the prophet himself, or the pen-man of this part of his prephecies, relating the story of the present businesse, paralleled with an other of the same time, and of the same subject; but diversly carried, and of diverse event.
Kirjath-jearim] A citie of Judah. Joshua 18:14.