Sixty-Five
being a multiple of thirteen (13x5=65), is specially associated with Ephraim (see Isa 7:8), and marks the apostasy of that Tribe. This
apostasy, which began in Judges 17, afterwards extended to the Ten-Tribe kingdom, which is frequently spoken of therefore under the name of "Ephraim."
" Within three-score and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people." |
