Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
(41) There seems to be a peculiar propriety in introducing this sentence. The Israelites became the worshippers of the hosts of heaven; then the Prophet says, that Jehovah is the God of Hosts. What folly, then, it was to worship the hosts of heaven, and to forsake the God of them! — Ed. 