Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.
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Gill's Exposition
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house,.... With all haste, as soon as she could:
and when thy feet enter the city; the city of Tirzah, very probably the king's palace stood at the entry…
Barnes' Notes
The dogs are the chief scavengers of Oriental cities (compare Psa 59:6, Psa 59:14). And the vulture is the chief scavenger in the country districts, assisted sometimes by kites and crows (see Job…
Adam Clarke
Shall the dogs eat - They shall not have an honorable burial: and shall not come into the sepulchres of their fathers.
When those that set up idols, and keep them up, go to enquire of the Lord, he determines to answer them, not according to the pretensions of their enquiry, but according to the multitude of their…
Cambridge Bible
shall the dogs eat It was this circumstance which rendered it so horrible to the Oriental mind to be cast out unburied. The dogs of an Eastern city were many and devoured all they found.
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