Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 41:9

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9. Abraham, the father of the Jews, taken from the remote Ur of the Chaldees. Others take it of Israel, called out of Egypt ( Deuteronomy 4:37 ; Hosea 11:1 ). from the chief men —literally, "the elbows"; so the joints; hence the root which joins the tree to the earth; figuratively, those of ancient and noble stock. But the parallel clause "ends of the earth" favors GESENIUS, who translates, "the extremities of the earth"; so JEROME. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-10" class="com-number"

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