Deu 28:49-50, 2Ki 6:23, 13:20-21, 2Ch 33:11, Job 1:17, Isa 7:17, 13:5 | TSK | STEP | bring a nation.Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous. as the eagle. a nation whose. understand. Heb. hear.

Deuteronomy 28:49-50

bring a nation.Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous.

Nu 24:24; Isa 5:26-30; Jer 5:15-17; Da 6:22,23; 9:26; Hab 1:6,7

Lu 19:43,44

as the eagle.

Jer 4:13; 48:40; 49:22; La 4:19; Eze 17:3,12; Ho 8:1; Mt 24:28

a nation whose.

Jer 5:15; Eze 3:6; 1Co 14:21

understand. Heb. hear.

of fierce countenance. Heb. strong of face.

Pr 7:13; Ec 8:1; *margins

Da 7:7; 8:23

shall not.

2Ch 36:17; Isa 47:6; Ho 13:16; Lu 19:44; 21:23,24

2 Kings 6:23

he prepared.

1Sa 24:17,18; 2Ch 28:15; Pr 25:21,22; Mt 5:47; Lu 6:35; 10:29-37

So the bands.That is, for a considerable time. What is mentioned in the next verse was more than a year afterwards. See on ver.

8,9; 5:2; 24:2

2 Kings 13:20-21

A.M. 3167. B.C. 837. buried him.

2Ch 24:16; Ac 8:2

the bands.

5:2; 6:23; 24:2

the Moabites.

3:5,24-27; Jud 3:12; 6:3-6

was let down. Heb. went down. touched.

4:35; Isa 26:19; Eze 37:1-10; Mt 27:52,53; Joh 5:25,28,29; 11:44

Ac 5:15; 19:12; Re 11:11

2 Chronicles 33:11

A.M. 3327. B.C. 677. the Lord.

De 28:36; Job 36:8

the captains.

Isa 10:8; 36:9

of the king. Heb. which were the king's.

Ne 9:32,37; Isa 5:26-30; 7:18-20

among the thorns.The word {bachochim} may possibly her signify with fetters or chains, as the kindred word {chachim} denotes, Eze 19:4, 9. The Syriac and Arabic have alive, probably reading {bechayim}.

1Sa 13:6; La 3:7

bound him.

2Ki 23:33; 25:6; Job 36:8-11; Ps 107:10-14

fetters. or, chains.