Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble , to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
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Gill's Exposition
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword,.... Of the kings of Syria and Israel, even great numbers of them, Ch2 28:5.
and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this; for…
Barnes' Notes
He hath delivered them to ... hissing - See 1Ki 9:8 note. It was an expression which Hezekiah might naturally use, for it had occurred in a prophecy of Micah Mic 6:16, his contemporary and monitor Jer…
Adam Clarke
He hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment - He probably refers here chiefly to that dreadful defeat by the Israelites in which a hundred and twenty thousand were slain, and two hundred…
Here is, I. Hezekiah's age when he came to the crown. He was twenty-five years old. Joash, who came to the crown after two bad reigns, was but seven years old; Josiah, who came after two bad reigns,…
Cambridge Bible
to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing R.V. to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and an hissing.
to trouble Better as R.V. mg., to be a terror (or "cause of trembling"). The judgement…
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