Lift up that voice, O daughter of Gallim
In a mournful and lamentable manner, and yet with such a clear
loud voice, as to be heard afar off: the word is sometimes used
for making a joyful sound, and of the neighing of horses. The
inhabitants of Gallim are meant by its daughter; of this place
was Phalti, who married Michal, Saul's daughter; very probably it
was in the tribe of Benjamin. Jerom
F6 makes mention of Accaron, a village, which was called Gallim.
Cause it to
be heard unto Laish;
if this was the place the Danites took, and called it Dan, it was
on the northern border of Judea, in the furthermost part of the
land; hence the phrase, from Dan to Beersheba; it was near to
Caesarea or Paneas, from whence the river Jordan took its rise;
and was a great way off, either of Gallim or Anathoth, for the
voice of them to be heard.
O poor
Anathoth!
this was a city in the tribe of Benjamin, ( Joshua 21:18
) it was the native place of the Prophet Jeremiah, ( Jeremiah 1:1
) according to Josephus F7, it was twenty furlongs from
Jerusalem; and, according to Jerom F8, three miles: it is
called "poor", because it was but a poor mean village; or because
it would now become so, through the ravages of the Assyrian
army.
F6 De locis Hebraicis, fol. 92. D.
F7 Antiqu. l. 13. c. 7. sect. 3.
F8 Comment. in Hieremiam, l. 1. fol. 121.
H. & l. 2. fol. 132. F. & l. 6. 161. C.
