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Ehud made him a dagger...and he did gird it...upon his right thigh--The sword was usually worn on the left side; so that Ehud's was the more likely to escape detection.
disappoint--literally, "come before," or, "encounter him." Supply "with" before "sword" (Ps 17:13), and "hand" (Ps 17:14). These denote God's power.
Statement in plain terms of what was intended by the symbols (Eze5:2; see Eze 6:12; Jer 15:2; 21:9). draw out...sword after them--(Le 26:33). Skeptics object; no such thing happened under Zedekiah,...
a bed--a sepulchral niche. all...slain by...sword, &c.--(Eze 32:21, 23, 24). The very monotony of the phraseology gives to the dirge an awe-inspiring effect.
shall fall by the sword--The very object of their confidence would be the instrument of their destruction. Thinking to "stand" by it, by it they shall "fall." Just retribution! Some fell by the...
Apostrophe to the sword. Go...one way--or, "Concentrate thyself"; "Unite thy forces on the right hand" [Grotius]. The sword is commanded to take the nearest route for Jerusalem, "whither their face...
they shall not lie with the mighty--that is, they shall not have separate tombs such as mighty conquerors have: but shall all be heaped together in one pit, as is the case with the vanquished...
to make a sore slaughter--literally, "that killing it may kill." glitter--literally, "glitter as the lightning flash": flashing terror into the foe. should we...make mirth--It is no time for levity...
his covert--the temple, where heretofore, like a lion, as its defender, by the mere terror of His voice He warded off the foe; but now He leaves it a prey to the Gentiles [Calvin]. fierceness...
stoned--as Zechariah, son of Jehoiada (2Ch 24:20-22; Mt 23:35). sawn asunder--as Isaiah was said to have been by Manasseh; but see my Introduction to Isaiah. tempted--by their foes, in the midst of...
He that leadeth into captivity--A, B, C, and Vulgate read, "if any one (be) for captivity." shall go into captivity--Greek present, "goeth into captivity." Compare Jer 15:2, which is alluded to...
The sword of war should spare women and children; but the sword of justice should know no distinction, but that of guilty or not guilty. This war was the execution of a righteous sentence upon a...
Here is an explanation of the parable in the last chapter. It is declared that the Lord was about to cut off Jerusalem and the whole land, that all might know it was his decree against a wicked and...
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets--Towards the close of the seventh circuit, the signal was given by Joshua, and on the Israelites' raising their loud war cry, the walls...
the battle went sore against Saul, &c.--He seems to have bravely maintained his ground for some time longer; but exhausted with fatigue and loss of blood, and dreading that if he fell alive into...
Assyrian--Sennacherib, representative of some powerful head of the ungodly in the latter ages [Horsley]. sword, not of...mighty...mean man--but by the unseen sword of God. flee--Sennacherib alone...
my mouth...sword--(Isa 11:4; Re 19:15). The double office of the Word of God, saving and damnatory, is implied (Isa 50:4; Joh 12:48; Heb4:12). shaft--(Ps 45:5). "Polished," that is, free from all...
He--Jehovah. made many to fall--literally, "multiplied the faller," that is, fallers. one fell upon another--(Jer 46:6, 12): even before the enemy strikes them (Le 26:37). let us go again to our...
bowels...troubled--(Job 30:27; Isa 16:11; Jer 4:19; 31:20). Extreme mental distress affects the bowels and the whole internal frame. heart...turned--(Ho 11:8); is agitated or fluttered. ...
Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword--The barbarous atrocities perpetrated against this city seem to have been designed to terrify all the subjects of Saul from...
The king is addressed as ready to go forth to battle. sword--(Compare Re 1:16; 19:15). mighty--(Compare Isa 9:6). glory and...majesty--generally used as divine attributes (Ps 96:6; 104:1; 111:3),...
Jeremiah, from addressing the sword in the second person, turns to his hearers and speaks of it in the third person. Lord...given it a charge--(Eze 14:17). the sea-shore--the strip of land between...
as the wounded--famine being as deadly as the sword (Jer 52:6). soul...poured...into...mothers bosom--Instinctively turning to their mother's bosom, but finding no milk there, they breathe out...
We gat our bread with...peril--that is, those of us left in the city after its capture by the Chaldeans. because of...sword of...wilderness--because of the liability to attack by the robber Arabs...
all...about him--his satellites: his bodyguard. bands--literally, "the wings" of an army (Isa 8:8). draw out...sword after them--(See on Eze 5:2; Eze 5:12).
Fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar (God's sword, Isa 10:5) conquered Egypt, with which Ethiopia was closely connected as its ally (Jer46:2-9; Eze 30:5-9). Ye--literally, "They." The third person...
Then said Jesus--"Suffer ye thus far" (Lu 22:51). Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?--This expresses both the feelings which struggled in...
Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David--To receive any part of the dress which had been worn by a sovereign, or his eldest son and heir, is deemed, in the...