Lev 26:25, Deu 28:52-57, 2Ch 12:2-5, 20:9-13, 32:1 | TSK | STEP

and toward.The Roman armies at length besieged, sacked, and utterly desolated Jerusalem: and during this seige, the famine was so extreme, that even rich and delicate persons, both men and women, ate their own children, and concealed the horrible repast, lest others should tear it from them! "Women snatched the food out of the very mouths of their husbands, and sons of their fathers, and (what is most miserable) mothers of their infants." "In every house, if there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued, and the dearest friends and relations fought with one another; snatching away the miserable provisions of life." "A woman distinguished by birth and wealth, after she had been plundered by the tyrants (or soldiers) of all her possessions, boiling her own sucking child, ate half of him, and concealing the other half, reserved it for another time!"

13:6; 2Sa 12:3; Mic 7:5

his children.

Ps 103:13; Isa 49:15; Mt 7:9-11; Lu 11:11-13

in the seige.

Jer 5:10; 34:2; 52:6

and delicate.

Isa 3:16; La 4:3-6

her eye shall be evil.

young one. Heb. after-birth. cometh out.

Ge 49:10; Isa 49:15

for she shall.

2 Chronicles 12:2-5

A.M. 3034. B.C. 970. Shishak.

1Ki 11:40; 14:24-26

because.

7:19,20; 36:14-19; Jud 2:13-15; 1Ch 28:9; Ne 9:26,27; Ps 106:43,44

Isa 63:10; Jer 2:19; 44:22,23; La 5:15

twelve hundred.

Jud 4:13; 1Sa 13:5; 2Sa 10:18

without number.

14:9; Jud 6:5; Re 9:16

Lubims.Lubim, apparently the same with Lehabim (Ge 10:13,) were probably the ancient inhabitants of Lybia, (called Lubi in the Syriac version, Ac 2:10,) a district of Africa, adjoining to Egypt, and extending along the shore of the Mediterranean as far as the city of Cyrene.

16:8; Eze 30:5; Na 3:9

the Sukkiims.The Sukkiim, (from {sachach,} "to cover,") are supposed to have been the Troglodites, as the LXX. and Vulgate render, a people of Egypt, on the west of the Red Sea, so called because they dwelt [en troglais,] in caves.

Ethiopians.These Cushim were probably the inhabitants of Ethiopia, south of Egypt.

14:12; 16:8; Isa 43:3; Da 11:43; Na 3:9

Cushim. Heb.

Ge 10:6-8

the fenced.

11:5-12; Isa 36:1; Jer 5:10

came.

2Ki 18:17; Isa 8:8; 10:11

Shemaiah.

11:2; 1Ki 12:22

Ye have forsaken me.

1,2; 15:2; De 28:15-68; Jud 10:9-14; 1Ch 28:9; Jer 2:19; 4:18; 5:19

Jer 23:33

left you.

2Sa 24:14; Ps 37:33

2 Chronicles 20:9-13

If, when evil.

6:28-30; 1Ki 8:33,37

and in thy presence.

Mt 18:20

thy name.

6:20; Ex 20:24; 23:21

is in this house.Several MSS. with the Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate, read {nikra}, "is invoked:" "thy name is invoked in this house."

whom thou.

Nu 20:17-21; De 2:4,5,9,19; Jud 11:15-18

how they reward us.Six of Dr. Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. and {räâh}, "evil:" "Behold they reward us evil:" which is also the reading of the Targum.

Ge 44:4; Ps 7:4; 35:12; Pr 17:13; Jer 18:20

to cast us.

Jud 11:23,24; Ps 83:3-12

wilt.

De 32:36; Jud 11:27; 1Sa 3:13; Ps 7:6,8; 9:19; 43:1; Isa 2:4; 42:4

Joe 3:12; Re 19:11

we have.

2Sa 14:11; 1Sa 14:6; 2Co 1:8,9

neither.

2Ki 6:15

our eyes.

Ps 25:15; 121:1,2; 123:1,2; 141:8; Jon 2:4