2Ki 21:12-13, Eze 5:9, Dan 9:12, Amo 3:2, Nah 1:9, Mat 24:21 | TSK | STEP

2 Kings 21:12-13

I am bringing.

whosoever.

1Sa 3:11; Isa 28:16; Jer 19:3; Am 3:2; Mt 24:21,22; Lu 23:28,29

I will stretch.This metaphor is taken from the custom of using a line in measuring land, and in dividing portions of it among several persons. Samaria was taken, pillaged, and ruined, and its inhabitants carried into captivity: Jerusalem shall have the same measure.

17:6; Isa 10:22; 28:17; 34:11; La 2:8; Eze 23:31-34; Am 7:7,8

Zec 1:16

the plummet.

10:11; 1Ki 21:21-24

I will wipe.I will empty Jerusalem of all its wealth and inhabitants, as truly as a dish turned up and wiped is emptied of its contents.

1Ki 14:10; Isa 14:23; Jer 25:9; Eze 24:10,11; Re 18:21-23

wiping it, and turning it upside down. Heb. he wipeth andturneth it upon the face thereof.

Ezekiel 5:9

that which.

La 4:6,9; Da 9:12; Am 3:2; Mt 24:21The sentence here passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, and the manner of expression makes it yet more so: the judgments are various, the threatenings of them varied, reiterated; so that one may well say, Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry?

Daniel 9:12

confirmed.

Isa 44:26; La 2:17; Eze 13:6; Zec 1:8; Mt 5:18; Ro 15:8

our judges.

1Ki 3:9; Job 12:17; Ps 2:10; 148:11; Pr 8:16

for under.The destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and the condition of the Jews during almost eighteen centuries, have far more exceeded all the miseries of the capture of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and in the Babylonish captivity, than those miseries exceeded the judgments inflicted on other nations; for the guilt of crucifying the Messiah, and rejecting his gospel, was immensely more atrocious than all their other transgressions.

La 1:12; 2:13; 4:6; Eze 5:9; Joe 2:2; Am 3:2; Mt 24:21; Mr 13:19

Lu 21:22