_Sent, after Nabuchodonosor had returned from Egypt. (The year of the world 3415.) This consultation should be placed after chap. xxxvii. (Calmet) --- Phassur, specified above, and chap. xxxviii. 1., (Calmet) or a different person. (St. Jerome) (Piscator) --- Sophonias, the second priest, (chap. xxx... [ Continue Reading ]
_City. The people shall turn their arms against each other; or rather the Chaldeans shall use their weapons to destroy them. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Pestilence. Septuagint, "death;" the sword, and various diseases. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_To them. This was verified, chap. lii., and 4 Kings xxiv._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Death; the former if they submit, the latter if they fight, ver. 9. (Calmet) --- God's grace is ever ready, that sinners may be converted. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Spoil. He shall be happy to escape naked, chap. xxxviii. 3. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Valley. He speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the strength of her situation, upon rocks, surrounded with a deep valley. (Challoner) --- Literally, "valley, solid and in a plain." (Haydock) --- Isaias (xxii. 1.) styles it ironically, "the valley of vision." (Calmet) --- Jerusalem was situated on many... [ Continue Reading ]
_Doings. Hebrew, "studies." So "Your studious pursuits" occurs, ver. 12, in many Hebrew manuscripts, though the printed copy have, "their;" and "spoiled" for apprised. (Kennicott) --- Forest, the temple, which is called Libanus, (Zacharias xi. 21.) and the houses built of cedar-wood, (4 Kings xxv. 9... [ Continue Reading ]
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