Jesaja 10:31

31 Madmena weicht; die Bürger zu Gebim werden flüchtig.

Jesaja 10:31 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:31

Madmenah is removed
That is, the inhabitants of it, who removed from thence upon hearing that the Assyrian army had invaded the land, and was coming up to Jerusalem. There was a place called Madmannah, which lay in the southern part of the tribe of Judah, ( Joshua 15:31 ) which, Jerom ^F9 says, was then called Memris, and was near the city of Gaza; but whether the same with this is not certain.

The inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee;
of this place we have no account any where. Hillerus ^F11 thinks the whole name of the city was Joshebehaggebim, which we render "the inhabitants of Gebim"; and supposes it had its name from the ditches that were in it, or about it.

---

FOOTNOTES:

F9 De Iocis Hebraicis, fol. 93. E.
F11 Onomast. Sacr. p. 310.

Jesaja 10:31 In-Context

29 Sie ziehen durch den engen Weg, bleiben in Geba über Nacht. Rama erschrickt; Gibea Sauls flieht.

30 Du Tochter Gallim, schreie laut! merke auf, Laisa, du elendes Anathoth! {~}

31 Madmena weicht; die Bürger zu Gebim werden flüchtig.

32 Man bleibt vielleicht einen Tag zu Nob, so wird er seine Hand regen wider den Berg der Tochter Zion, wider den Hügel Jerusalems.

33 Aber siehe, der HERR HERR Zebaoth wird die Äste mit Macht verhauen, und was hoch aufgerichtet steht, verkürzen, daß die Hohen erniedrigt werden.