by whom shall Jacob arise? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac and Vulgate, read "who shall raise up Jacob'? "
Jacob. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of the Subject), App-6, for the whole nation
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Amos 7:2
2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.