Go up to Lebanon, so the prophet now bids the people, personified as the daughter of Zion, and cry, and lift up thy voice in Bashan, that is, the mountains of Bashan, in the country east of Jordan, and cry from the passages, rather, "from Aba-rim," the mountain range east of the Dead Sea, to which Nebo belonged, the three highest points being named, from which one could overlook the entire country; for all thy lovers are destroyed, namely, all the kings of the allied nations, upon whom Judah depended for help, together with their people, not only Egypt, but the smaller kingdoms of Syria and of Northern Arabia as well. All of these were brought into subjection by Nebuchadnezzar and his armies.

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