12. An ancient manufcript of Kennicott fupports this reading, and it is confirmed by the former clause.

15. The princes of the east delight in washing their bodies with the most costly perfumes. Wef

ton.

18. See Shaw's Journey, p. 177. ed. 2. Haffelquift's Voyage to Palestine, p. 209. and Niebuhr's

Defcrip. of Arab. p. 167.

שתת תשת .20

Merrick, p. 210.

20. nun from лnw egreffus eft. Kennicott.

21. See Pf. cxlviii. 8, 9.

25. tale, as Judg. xviii. 4.

26. Leviathan fignifies not only the crocodile, as in Job. xl. 20. but also any very large fish, as the whale.

See Bochart's Hieroz. P. ii. l.

5. c. 16. 30. Theodoret explains this verse of the refurrection of the body Ενταύθα σαφως ήμιν την ανάςασιν προεκήρυξε, καὶ δια τε αγιο πνευματος αναβίωσιν : but it is manifeft from the whole tenor of the psalm, that the author speaks here only of the creative power of God, while all things are refreshed and enlivened by his falutary influence.

PSALM CV.

1. Mr. Street thinks that the first fix verses of this pfalm were fung by the priest alone, the rest of it by the congregation.

4. Be ftrengthened.— xai ngaraiaOnte, lxx. Vulg. Syr. Æthiop. fo Houbigant and Street.

12. typ quafi nihil. Prov. x. 20.

13. These events in the Ifraelitish history are not elsewhere recorded.

16. And brake.-The Syr. Vulg. and Arab. supply the copulative. Street.

17. Si

Kennicott.

propter ferrum; N abivit, occubuit.

19. The first clause refers to his completion of his interpretation of the dreams of the chief Butler and Baker; the second to the interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams, called the Oracle of the Lord, because sent by him to Pharaoh, Gen. xli. 25. Kennicott.

25. The Egyptians afflicted the people of Ifrael for the purpose of diminishing their number, fee Exod. i. 10.

28. Yet they were not obedient to his word.-The lxx. and Syr. omit the negative.

31. The y, according to Bochart, was that fpecies of fly styled by the Romans Musca Canina, and by the Græcians Kuvoμvia. Mr. Bryant fays it is difficult to determine whether the term 2 denotes absolutely a distinct species of fly, or fwarms of all forts. The lxx. express it zuvoμvia; the Vulgate renders it omne genus mufcarum; Aquila, ταμμυιαν, and the like is to be found in the Syriac and Samaritan. Naturalifts in later times diftinguished

M

between the Oeftrum and the Cunomyia, however the poets and many writers speak of one animal under both names. See Bochart. Hieroz. vol. ii. 1. 11. p. 547. and Bryant on the Egyptian Plagues, P. 82.

This plague was extremely afflicting to the Egyptians, who affected great external purity, particularly to "the priests," who, fays Herodotus, "are fhaved, both as to their heads and bodies, every third day, to prevent any loufe or other detestable object being found upon them, when they are performing their duty to the Gods." Herod. 1. 2. c. 37. fee Bryant. Bochart fays, "Hebræo nomine

puto pediculos potius quam culices fignificari. Mihi nulla occurrit ratio, cur culices dicantur cinnim; fed pediculis hoc nomen vel maxime convenit. Hieroz. Pars Poft 1. 11.

35. 15. Syr. and Kennicott. 41. 1. Lxx. and Kennicott.

PSALM CVI.

1. This Pfalm is of the refponfive kind, as is manifest from the change of perfons. The first stanza is much celebrated amongst the critics.

הודו ליהוה כי-טוב כי לעולם חסדו :

In which I fee no remarkable beauty.

3. Bleffed are they that

7. by afcendentes, lxx. and Kennicott. The rebellion here spoken of happened before they reached the Red Sea, Exod. xiv. 10, 12. 2 verfus, as in Numb. xiii. 17.

15. The true reading feems to be N nausea, faftidium, which Houbigant adopts, and which is strongly supported by Num. xi. 20. where the story is related, and the word N ufed. Lowth, Kennicott, and Street.

19. The Egyptian idol Apis.

26. To lift up the hand, is to fwear, fee Deut. xxxii. 40.

28. The term of joining themselves is too general, to express a word which the facred writer sticks fo close to in describing this matter of Peor. As 7x is a pair and ¬y a string of pearls, it is likely they joined hand in hand, dancing round the idol, perhaps male and female alternately. Mudge. Dathius tranflates it fafciis fe ornarunt.

30. He did not pray, but executed judgment; putting Zimri to death according to the fentence, Numb. xxiv. 14, 15.

37. fynonimous to Baalim, the gods of the

PSALM CVII.

But Da

3. Confult Venema on the fubdivifions of this Pfalm. This he exemplifies firft in particular by his protection of the Jews in their return from the Babylonish captivity: fecondly, in general, v. 17. his healing the fick when they cry unto him, thirdly, navigators, fourthly, his punishments and rewards of countries and people for their fins and virtues. 3. Hare, Kennicott and Secker. thius obferves, that there is no need of any variation in the text, for that fignifies the Red Sea, which was fouth of Judæa, and is called the sea abfolutely, Pf. cxiv. 3, 5. and the Chaldee paraphrast, gives the fame interpretation NN¡ de mari auftrali. But Michaelis approves of the conjectural emendation, on which he thus remarks, “nullum hanc lectionem codicem habere miror, fed eo non adducor, ut credam, five duas cœli plagas eodem nomine dictas, five mare nara ox in Palæstinâ Erythræum effe, ad cujus ne ultimum quidem finum Palæftinæ termini aut Ifraelitarum ante fubjugatam fub Davide Idumæam pertinuerunt." Suppl. ad Lex. Hebr. p. 1083.

4. Lxx. Vulg. Syr. Secker. This verfe relates to fome of the Jews. who flying from the Chaldæans,