Deu 29:12-15, Jer 22:29-30, Eze 17:9 | TSK | STEP | thou shouldest. enter. Heb. pass.This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people. into his oath.

Deuteronomy 29:12-15

thou shouldest.

5:2,3; Ex 19:5,6; Jos 24:25; 2Ki 11:17; 2Ch 15:12-15

enter. Heb. pass.This is an allusion to the solemn ceremony used by several ancient nations, when they entered into a covenant with each other. The victims, slain as a sacrifice on this occasion, were divided, and and parts laid asunder: the contracting parties then passed between them, imprecating, as a curse on those who violated the sacred compact, that they might in like manner be cut asunder. (Ge 15:10.) St. Cyril, in his work against Julian, shows that passing between the divided parts of a victim was used also among the Chaldeans and other people.

into his oath.

14; 2Ch 15:12-15; Ne 10:28,29

establish.

7:6; 26:18,19; 28:9

he may be.

Ge 17:7; 26:3,4; 28:13-15; Ex 6:7; Jer 31:31-33; 32:38; Heb 11:16

Jer 31:31-34; Heb 8:7-12

also with him.

5:3; Jer 32:39; 50:5; Ac 2:39; 1Co 7:14

Jeremiah 22:29-30

6:19; De 4:26; 31:19; 32:1; Isa 1:1,2; 34:1; Mic 1:2; 6:1,2

Write.Zedekiah was taken prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar; his sons slain before his eyes; and his eyes being put out, he was carried to Babylon; and we read no more either of him or his posterity.

1Ch 3:16,17; Mt 1:12-16

sitting.

36:30; Ps 94:20; Lu 1:32,33; Mt 1:11,12

Ezekiel 17:9

Shall it.Shall he succeed in casting off the yoke of the king of Babylon, to whom he had sworn fealty?

10,15-17; Nu 14:41; 2Ch 13:12; 20:20; Isa 8:9,10; 30:1-7; 31:1-3

Jer 32:5

shall he.He shall come and dethrone him, and carry him captive.

2Ki 25:4-7; Jer 21:4-7; 24:8-10; 29:4-7; 52:7-11

the fruit.The children of Zedekiah.

even.

Jer 37:10