And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country - a mountain-range, running north to south from the one extremity of Palestine to the other, in a parallel course to the Jordan, and nearly dividing the country in two. It is the most striking of all the physical features of the country. In Judea this "hill country" stands well out from the flat parts around it, and it was there that Mary hied her.
With haste - the haste, not of trepidation, but of transport, not only at the wonderful announcement she had to make to her relative, but at the scarcely less astonishing news she expected to receive from her of her own condition.
Into a city of Juda. Writing in the first instance to Gentiles, it was not necessary to be more particular; but without doubt the city was Hebron: see Joshua 20:7; Joshua 21:11.