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Gill's Exposition
And ye shall smite every fenced city and every choice city,.... That is, the inhabitants of them with the sword, and demolish them also, Kg2 3:25, and shall fell every good tree; which seems contrary…
Barnes' Notes
Ditches - Or “pits” Jer 14:3. They were to dig pits in the broad valley or wady, wherein the water might remain, instead of flowing off down the torrent course.
Adam Clarke
Make this valley full of ditches - The word נחל nachal may be translated brook, as it is by the Vulgate and Septuagint. There probably was a river here, but it was now dry; and the prophet desires…
Jehoram has no sooner got the sceptre into his hand than he takes the sword into his hand, to reduce Moab. Crowns bring great cares and perils to the heads that wear them; no sooner in honour than in…
Cambridge Bible
Make this valley full of ditches R.V. trenches. The valley was a torrent bed which in the time of rain would become suddenly flooded with the water from the steep sides, and from the watershed above.…