(1) The Russian version of this passage reads: “... jealousy is cruel as the grave: the arrows thereof are arrows of fire.” In this, I have been given to understand, it adheres more closely than does the English Bible to the original Hebrew.
(2) “Which is the second month...” I KINGS; vi:1.
(3) “Which is the eighth month...” I KINGS; vi:38.
(4) “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” PROVERBS; xxv:11.
(5) Abimelech; i. e., Father-King.