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ארצה בני קדם, “to the land of Aram,” as we know from Isaiah 9,11.

בני קדם, inhabitants of Aram, as we know from Isaiah 9,11.

מלאו According to some, they are enthusiastic; comp. מלא with enthusiasm⁸A. V., A multitude. (Jer. 12:6); I think that it means, they are full, namely, with the wisdom of the children of the East, the Aramæans ; comp. Aram in the east, and the Philistines in the west (9:11); the next is, therefore, And are soothsayers like the Philistines. בית יעקב in this verse must then be vocative, like the first (5:5).⁹In the Hebrew text this remark is wrongly placed at the end of the next sentence.

“Open the window towards the east.” Opposite the land of Arom which is located in the east, as it is stated, “Arom from the east.”⁸Yeshayahu 9:11.

And Geshur and Aram took Geshur represents the Geshurites and the Maacathites because they were near the Arameans, who dwelt in the east of the land of Israel, and Aram dwelt in the east, as it is written (Isa. 9:11): “Aram from the east and the Philistines from the west.” During the period of the Judges (Jud. 3:8), when Israel sinned, He (God) delivered them into the hands of the enemy, into the hands of Aram, and then (these) went and took them from them, and when David came, he restored them, and because he restored them, Scripture mentioned them here.