Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
Ver. 1. Send ye the lamb.] For prevention of those lions, Isa 15:9 submit to Hezekiah, your right liege lord, a lamb, i.e., your appointed number of tribute lambs, in token of homage. 2 Samuel 8:2 2Ki 3:4 But especially make your peace with God, the Ruler of the whole world, 1Ch 29:12 by paying him homage and fealty, that there may be a lengthening of your tranquillity.
From Selo in the wilderness.] Otherwise called Petra (because beset with rocks), whence the country it stood in was called Arabia Petraea. a Some make it the head city of Moab, others of Edom, a place, it seemeth, that was full of cattle, and by king Amaziah, who took it, called Jokteel. 2Ki 14:7
a Strabo, lib. xvi.