therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 10. Wall. Every male child, or every dog. See 1 Kennicott. 25:22. Bible.—The Hebrew word mashtin, in Spanish and French, signifies a “shepherd’s dog.”—Israel. This proverbial expression signifies, that even those who keep at home, and meddle not with the affairs of war, will not escape; ( Calmet.) nor shall those who have run away from the field of battle, ( Bible.) nor the most precious or contemptible things be spared. Deuteronomy 32:36. 4 Kennicott. 14:26. Menochius.—Clean. This family is compared to something most disgusting, ( Bible.) because it had introduced idolatry, and the prediction against it was literally fulfilled by Baasa, (Calmet. 15:29. Tirinus.) “as the vintner seeks in the vineyard even for the last grape.” Syr. and Arab.
or, male