John Gill Commentary Isaiah 10:30

"Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth!" — Isaiah 10:30 (ASV)

Lift up that voice, O daughter of Gallim
In a mournful and lamentable manner, and yet with such a clear loud voice, as to be heard afar off: the word is sometimes used for making a joyful sound, and of the neighing of horses. The inhabitants of Gallim are meant by its daughter; of this place was Phalti, who married Michal, Saul's daughter; very probably it was in the tribe of Benjamin. Jerom

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Cause it to be heard unto Laish ;
if this was the place the Danites took, and called it Dan, it was on the northern border of Judea, in the furthermost part of the land; hence the phrase, from Dan to Beersheba; it was near to Caesarea or Paneas, from which the river Jordan took its rise; and was a great distance from either Gallim or Anathoth for their voice to be heard.

O poor Anathoth !
this was a city in the tribe of Benjamin, (Joshua 21:18) it was the native place of the Prophet Jeremiah, (Jeremiah 1:1) according to Josephus ^F7 , it was twenty furlongs from Jerusalem; and, according to Jerom ^F8 , three miles: it is called "poor", because it was but a poor mean village; or because it would now become so, through the ravages of the Assyrian army.

FOOTNOTES:

• F6: Jerom makes mention of Accaron, a village, which was called Gallim. De locis Hebraicis, fol. 92. D.
• F7: Antiqu. l. 13. c. 7. sect. 3.
• F8: Comment. in Hieremiam, l. 1. fol. 121. H. & l. 2. fol. 132. F. & l. 6. 161. C.