And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 5. And I will make Rabbah.] The metropolis of the Ammonites. It signifieth that great city; and was afterwards rebuilt by Ptolemy Philadelph, and called Philadelphia.
“ Valet ima summis
Mutare, et insignem attenuat Deus
Obseura premens, ”& c.
- Hor., lib. i. Od. 34.