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Ecclesiasticus 10:19
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Et reliquiæ ligni saltus ejus præ paucitate numerabuntur, et puer scribet eos.
Et reliquiæ ligni saltus ejus præ paucitate numerabuntur,
et puer scribet eos.]
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
few: Heb. number, Isaiah 37:36
Reciprocal: Psalms 29:9 - discovereth Isaiah 21:17 - the mighty Jeremiah 20:2 - the stocks Jeremiah 21:14 - in the Jeremiah 44:28 - a small Ezekiel 12:16 - a few men
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few,.... Which were left unconsumed, that escaped this destruction, those of the Assyrian army that fled with Sennacherib their king; which, the Rabbins say r, were no more than ten, as Jarchi and Kimchi observe; yea, some say there were but five left who escaped, and name them, Sennacherib and his two sons, Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuzaradan:
that a child may write them; count them, and take down their names; and it may be understood of a military muster, and the sense be, that the army should be reduced to so small a number by this stroke upon them, that there would be no need of an able muster master to take the account of them, a child would be equal to such a task. The Targum is,
"and the rest of his warriors shall fail, that the people shall be a small number, and shall be reckoned a weak kingdom.''
r T. Bab. ib. fol. 95. 2. Praefat. Echa Rabbati, fol. 41. 1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And the rest of the trees ... - Keeping up still the image of a large and once dense forest, to which he had likened the Assyrian army. ‘The rest’ here means that which shall be left after the threatened judgment shall come upon them.
That a child may write them - That a child shall be able to number them, or write their names; that is, they shall be very few. A child can number or count but few; yet the number of those who would be left, would be so very small that even a child could count them with ease. It is probable that a few of the army of Sennacherib escaped (see the note at Isaiah 37:37); and compared with the whole army, the remnant might bear a striking resemblance to the few decaying trees of a once magnificent forest of cedars.
