24. δεσπότης] Apparently used here, iii. 1, and x. 33, to render
Heb. Adan, a title used, according to Kay, of God “as Supreme
Administrator and Judge,” It occurs also Exod. xxiii. 17, xxxiv.
Mal. iii. 1, and Isai. x. 16, xix. 4. Notice Jerem. xxii. 18. σαβαὼθ] LXX. transliterates this word in Isaiah and in I Sam.,
renders by δυνάμεων in Psalms, as xxiv. 10, lix. 5, lxix. 6, and a few
other passages, as 2 Sam. vi. 18; generally by παντοκράτωρ elsewhere,
as Jerem. v. 14, Amos iv. 13, v. 15, ix. 15, Micah iv. 4, c. In
xlvi. (xxvi.) 10, AQ insert, in Zech. xiii. 2 they omit σαβαώθ, against

 
KB. Sec Mr H. St J. Thackeray's art- " The Greek Translators of the
Prophetical Books," in Joum. Tkeot. Studies, July 1903, p. 579. The title is variously explained as referring to (a)	the stars ; so Cheyne, and perhaps Delitzsch. (b)	armies, i.e. primarily those of Israel; so Schrader;
Dominus exercituum, Vulgate; (K^p«oc) rrparni»¥, Aquila;
dvrdpfMP, Symm., Theod.