shall … nations rightly mg. would … nations!Not a question, but the expression of a wish.

children sons. Cp. Exodus 4:22. The point is that as daughters could not as a rule inherit (Numbers 27:1 ff.; cp. Job 42:15), God desired to treat His people as sons.

goodly heritage of the hosts heritage of the chief splendour, or, goodliest heritage, mg. the goodliest heritage of the nations, lit. "the heritage of the beauty of the beauties (better than -hosts") of the nations." Cp. Ezekiel 20:6; Ezekiel 20:15; Daniel 11:16; Daniel 11:41. The sense is that Israel shall have a more glorious land than any other nation.

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