Ezekiel 31:1
_Year, about a month before the fall of Jerusalem._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Year, about a month before the fall of Jerusalem._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Assyrian. The ruin of this great empire (Calmet) might have admonished the king of Egypt of his frail condition. (Haydock) --- About thirty-eight years before (Calmet) Ninive had been taken, and its king (Sarac or Chinaladan) slain by his own general, Nabopolassar, and by Astyages, of Media. They d... [ Continue Reading ]
_Roots. Various nations paid tribute to the Assyrians, (St. Jerome; Calmet) while he sent his troops, like rivulets, to keep all in subjection. (Theodoret)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have delivered. Here the time past is put for the future; i.e., I shall deliver. --- The mighty one, &c., viz., Nabuchodonosor, who conquered both the Assyrians and Egyptians; (Challoner) or rather his father, Nabopolassar, subdued the former, ver. 3. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Strangers; revolted Assyrians. See Psalm xvii. 46._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Branches. The nations continued, but submitted to another master._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Pit. The new king would appoint fresh governors._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Waters, as if they bewailed his fate. (Calmet) --- Those whom the king of Ninive had exalted, and the people, who wished not to submit to a foreigner, would no doubt lament the slaughtered monarch, new silent (Haydock) in the grave. (Theodoret)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Comforted. The ghosts of princes who had been subject to Serac, seeing his fall, bore their own misfortune with greater content. In the grave there is no distinction of master and slave. (Calmet) --- Surviving princes expected some emolument from the change. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Arm; those in power. Septuagint, "his seed." Hebrew Zora, (Haydock) means both._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Famous king of Assyria, or of Egypt. --- Pharao. (Calmet) --- Mutato nomine de te_ Fabula narratur. (Horace, 1. Sat. 1.) --- Though Egypt be like the most potent kingdoms, it shall likewise fall. (Worthington)... [ Continue Reading ]
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