An under-current of satire seems unmistakeable.

all the glory perhaps: the whole weight (see "burden" in next verse).

the offspring and the issue the scions and the offshoots (Cheyne). The second expression is decidedly contemptuous, and so (more or less) are all that follow. It cannot be to Eliakim's credit that the bulk of his relations are likened to the meanest kitchen utensils.

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