46:18 As I live. See Gen. 22:15.

the King. For God as King, see 8:19; 10:7, 10; 48:15; 51:57; Deut. 33:5. In the oracles against the nations, God’s true kingship is contrasted with the vain pretensions of earthly kings.

Tabor . . . Carmel. These mountains in northern Israel stood at the eastern and western boundaries of the strategic Plain of Megiddo.