* and he leaneth.
This verse should probably, as many learned men have supposed,
be read in the past, and not in the future tense: "In this
thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master went
into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaned on my
hand, and I worshipped in the house of Rimmon; in that I have
worshipped in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant
in this thing." Rimmon is supposed by Selden to the same with
Elion, a god of the Phoenicians, borrowed undoubtedly from the
Elyon of the Hebrews, one of the names of God.
7:2,17
* and I bow.
17:35 Ex 20:5 1Ki 19:18
* the Lord pardon.
2Ch 30:18,19 Jer 50:20
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