Had enjoyed her sabbaths, i.e. had rested from the labour of the husbandmen in ploughing and harrowing it, &c., the people that should have managed it being destroyed. Of the phrase, See Poole on "Leviticus 25:2". To fulfil threescore and ten years; that so the seventy years captivity prophesied of by Jeremiah might be accomplished.

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