George Leo Haydock

Ariel. This word signifies the lion of God, and here is taken for the strong city of Jerusalem. (Challoner) — It was destroyed by the Chaldeans, (4 Kings xxv.) and still more by the Romans, 40 years after. (Calmet) (Worthington) — Ezechiel (xliii. 15.) styles the altar of holocausts Ariel. — Took. Septuagint. The Hebrew means also “inhabited.” (Haydock) — Sion was called the city of David. (Calmet) — The invasion (Haydock) of Sennacherib is here foretold (Forcr.[Forerius?]) two years before, chap. xxxi. 10.