For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see,.... Or, "to the isles of Chittim" ; so called from Kittim the son of Javan, Ge 10:4 who, as Josephus says , possessed the island of Chethima, now called Cyprus; and, from that, all islands, and most maritime places, are, by the Hebrews, called Chittim, he observes: it may regard all the islands in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas:and send unto Kedar; which was in Arabia, and lay to the east, as Chittim to the west; and so the Targum paraphrases it,"send to the provinces of the Arabians:''and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing; as what is inquired about in the following verse, a change of deities.
All this is to be understood of the contemplation of the mind, and not of any corporeal journey to be taken, to inquire into this matter. Myytk yya wrbe eiv nhsouv Sept. "transite ad insulas Cethim", V.
L. "ad insulas Cypriorum"; so some in Vatablus; "in insulas", Schmidt. Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect.