and intrepidity; and as Jerusalem was situated on an eminence, they are directed to go down: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; a steep hill, so called from the flowers upon it: and ye shall find them at the end of the brook; on the bank of Kidron, according to Beckius, which seems not likely to be meant, since they went as far as the wilderness of Tekoa, Ch2 20:20 , before the wilderness of Jeruel; the same with that of Tekoa, or near it.