For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
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Gill's Exposition
For they fled from the swords,.... Of their enemy, whom they could not withstand; perhaps the Assyrian army:
from the drawn sword; just ready to be sheathed in them:
and from the bent bow; just…
Barnes' Notes
For they fled - The inhabitants of one part of the land. The grievousness of war - Hebrew, כבד kobed - “the weight, the heaviness, the oppression” of war; probably from the calamities that would…
Arabia was a large country, that lay eastward and southward of the land of Canaan. Much of it was possessed by the posterity of Abraham. The Dedanim, here mentioned (Isa 21:13), descended from Dedan,…
Cambridge Bible
The caravans have deserted the frequented paths, because of armed bands scouring the country.
16 f. The interpretation of the vision is regarded by many commentators as a later appendix similar to ch.…