And I will camp against thee round about
Or as a "ball" or "globe" F15; a camp all around; the Lord
is said to do that which the enemy should do, because it was by
his will, and according to his order, and which he would succeed
and prosper, and therefore the prophecy of it is the more
terrible; and it might be concluded that it would certainly be
fulfilled, as it was; see ( Luke 19:43 ) ( 21:20 ) : and will
lay siege against thee with a mount:
raised up for soldiers to get up upon, and cast their arrows into
the city from, and scale the walls; Kimchi and Ben Melech
interpret it a wooden tower. This cannot be understood of
Sennacherib's siege, for he was not suffered to raise a bank
against the city, nor shoot an arrow into it, ( Isaiah 37:33
) but well agrees with the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans, as
related by Josephus {p}: and I will raise forts against
thee;
from whence to batter the city; the Romans had their battering
rams.
F15 (rwdk) "quasi pila", Piscator; "instar globi", Gataker.
F16 Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 1. & c. 12. sect. 1, 2.