2Ki 16:7-8, 2Ch 28:20-21, Isa 10:6, Jer 27:6-7, Eze 5:1-4, 29:18, 20 | TSK | STEP | Tiglath-pileser. Heb. Tilgath-pileser. Tilgath-pilneser. I am thy servant. and save.

son.In this expressive emblem, the prophet represents the Jewish nation; his hair, the people; the razor, the Chaldeans; the cutting of the hair, the calamities and disgrace coming upon them; the balances, the exact distribution of the Divine judgments; the third part of the hair burnt, those destroyed in the city; the third part smitten with a knife, those slain in attempting to escape; the third part scattered to the winds, those who escaped to other countries; the few hairs in his skirt, those left with Gedaliah; and the burning of these, their destruction in Egypt.

take.

44:20; Le 21:5; Isa 7:20

then.

Da 5:27

shalt burn.

12; Jer 9:21,22; 15:2; 24:10; 38:2

the city.

4:1-8

I will draw.

12; 12:14; Le 26:33; Jer 9:16; Am 9:2,3

a few.

2Ki 25:12; Jer 39:10; 40:6; 52:16; Mt 7:14; Lu 13:23,24; 1Pe 4:18

skirts. Heb. wings.

take.

2Ki 25:25; Jer 41:1-44:30; 52:30

shall a fire.

Jer 4:4; 48:45

Ezekiel 29:18

Nebuchadrezzar.

26:7-12; Jer 25:9; 27:6

a great.Nebuchadnezzar was thirteen years employed in the siege. During this long siege, the soldiers must have endured great hardships; their heads would become bald by constantly wearing their helmets; and their shoulders be peeled by carrying materials to and from the works.

yet.St. Jerome asserts, on the authority of the Assyrian histories, that when the Tyrians saw their city must fall, they put their most valuable effects on board their ships, and fled with them to the islands, and their colonies, "so that, the city being taken, Nebuchadnezzar found nothing worthy of his labour."

Ezekiel 29:20

labour. or, hire. served.

2Ki 10:30; Isa 10:6,7; 45:1-3; Jer 25:9