take up this proverb. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:7; Numbers 23:24; Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:15; Numbers 24:20; Numbers 24:21; Numbers 24:23). Elsewhere only in Micah 2:4.Habakkuk 2:6, and Job 27:1; Job 29:1.
proverb. triumph-song.
king of Babylon. Figure of speech Polyonymia. One of the names for the Antichrist. See note on Daniel 7:8.
How.! Figure of speech Chleuasmos. App-6.
golden city: or exactress of gold. Some, by reading (= R) for (= D) read "oppression".