And over the herds that fed in Sharon. — Heb., the oxen that grazed in the Sharon. The Sharon (i.e., “the Level”) was a fertile strip of pasture-land running along the coast of the Mediterranean, between Cæsarea and Joppa. (See Song of Solomon 2:1; Isaiah 33:9.)
Shitrai. — Hebrew margin, Shirtai.
Over the herds that were in the valleys. — Apparently the valleys of the highlands of Judah. Another reading is “in valleys.”