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Zep 1:11, apparently in or near Jerusalem, and occupied by merchants; but we have no clue to its location.

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Easton

mortar, a place in or near Jerusalem inhabited by silver merchants (Zep 1:11). It has been conjectured that it was the "Phoenician quarter" of the city, where the traders of that nation resided, after the Oriental custom.

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Fausets

("the mortar") (the article is in the Hebrew, showing it is not a proper name). The hollow in Jerusalem where the merchants carried on traffic. The deep valley between the temple and upper city, crowded with merchant bazaars (Grove): Zep 1:11. Jerome makes it the valley of Siloam; "howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down." The Tyropeon valley below Mount Acra (Rosenmuller). Better (Maurer) Jerusalem itself, embosomed amidst hills. Isa 22:1, "the valley of vision"; Jer 22:1, "O inhabitress of the valley and rock of the plain," doomed to be the scene of its people being as it were pounded in "the mortar" (Pr 27:22). So Jerusalem is compared to a pot in Eze 24:3,6: "set on a pot ... woe to the bloody city, to the loot whose scum is therein."