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Verse 1. Year, about a month before the fall of Jerusalem.
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Historical chapter commentary
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Verse 3. Assyrian. The ruin of this great empire ( Calmet.) might have admonished the king of Egypt of his frail condition. Bible.—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 divided the empire between them, and the father of Nabuchodonosor fixed his residence at Babylon. Usher, A. 3378.—Cedar. Septuagint “cypress.”—Top; the king of Ninive. Calmet.—Egypt’s monarch thought himself invincible; yet would fall like the Assyrians. Worthington.
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Verse 4. Roots. Various nations paid tribute to the Assyrians, (Saint Jerome Calmet.) while he sent his troops, like rivulets, to keep all in subjection. Theod.
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Verse 11. I have delivered. Here the time past is put for the future; that is I shall deliver.—The mighty one, and so forth that is Nabuchodonosor, who conquered both the Assyrians and Egyptians; ( Challoner.) or rather his father, Nabopolassar, subdued the former. verse 3. Bible.
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Verse 12. Strangers; revolted Assyrians. See Psalms 17:46.
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Verse 13. Branches. The nations continued, but submitted to another master.
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Verse 14. Pit. The new king would appoint fresh governors.
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Verse 15. 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 ( Bible.) in the grave. Theod.
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Verse 16. 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. Bible.
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Verse 17. Arm; those in power. Septuagint “his seed.” Hebrew Zora, ( Bible.) means both.
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Verse 18. Famous king of Assyria, or of Egypt.—Pharao. Calmet.—
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Fabula narratur. Hor. 1. Sat. 1.
—Though Egypt be like the most potent kingdoms, it shall likewise fall. Worthington.
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Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Sheol is the place of the dead.