And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
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Gill's Exposition
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet,.... Or her secundine, "her afterbirth", as in the margin of our Bibles; so the Targum of Jonathan and Aben Ezra interpret it. The latter…
The curses correspond in form and number Deu 28:15-19 to the blessings Deu 28:3-6, and the special modes in which these threats should be executed are described in five groups of denunciations Deut.…
One would have thought that enough had been said to possess them with a dread of that wrath of God which is revealed from heaven against the ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. But to show how…
Cambridge Bible
And thou shalt eat, etc.] Cp. Lev 26:29; Eze 5:10, and for instances of this horror 2Ki 6:28 f., Lam 2:20; Lam 4:10.
in the siege and in the straitness A Refrain as in Deu 28:28; Deu 28:28. Similarly…
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