Ariel. This word signifies the lion of God, and here is taken for the strong city of Jerusalem. (Challoner) It was destroyed by the Chaldeans, (4 Kings xxv.) and still more by the Romans, 40 years after. (Calmet) (Worthington) Ezechiel (xliii. 15.) styles the altar of holocausts Ariel. Took. Septuagint. The Hebrew means also "inhabited. "(Haydock) Sion was called the city of David. (Calmet) The invasion (Haydock) of Sennacherib is here foretold (Forcr.) two years before, chap. xxxi. 10.

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