five cities. These were probably Heliopolis, Leontopolis, Daphne, Migdol, and Memphis.
the language of Canaan: i.e. the Hebrew language, by the multitude of Jews that went thither.
destruction. The primitive reading was doubtless hazedek. "righteousness", which the Septuagint simply transliterates, aoeoek. From. desire not to compete with "Jerusalem", which bore this name (Isaiah 1:26), it was altered to cheres, which in Chaldee. "the sun", or in Greek. "Heliopolis", which is the reading in many MSS., two early printed editions, and the margins of the Authorized Version and Revised Version But when the temple at Jerusalem was cleansed and restored, the temple at Heliopolis was deemed schismatic; and, by altering one letter (= CH, for. H), cheres (the sun) was altered to heres (destruction). Hence the present reading of the current Hebrew text.