According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
Ver. 50. Even Timnathserah.] Called also Timnathheres in Judges 2:9; that is, the figure of the sun, because, belike, there the sun had been worshipped: another Heliopolis.
And he built the city.] An old ruinous city, but by him repaired and beautified, that there he might spend and end his days.
“ Regum aequabat opes animis. ”
And well he might have engraven over his gates that distich of Ennius concerning Scipio -
“ Si fas (caedendo / cedendo) caelestia scandere cuiquam,
Mi soli caeli maxima porta pater."