trouble and anguish Better perhaps distress and hardship, cf. Deuteronomy 8:15; Jeremiah 2:6.

the young and old lion R.V. the lioness and the lion. Hebrew (like Arabic) possesses a superfluity of synonyms for the lion.

fiery flying serpent winged Saraph. See on Isaiah 6:2; Isaiah 14:29; cf. Numbers 21:6. These are some of the terrors braved by the Jewish envoys in the prosecution of their foolhardy enterprise.

they will carry(R.V. they carry) their riches, &c. The ambassadors take with them a whole caravan of presents to the Egyptian courts.

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