The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
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Gill's Exposition
The nations also heard of him,.... The neighbouring nations, particularly the Egyptians; the fame of his behaviour reached them; they were informed how he used his own subjects, and what designs he…
Chains - See the marginal rendering to Eze 19:9 and Isa 27:9, note. Eze 19:5 Another - Jehoiachin who soon showed himself no less unworthy than Jehoahaz. The “waiting” of the people was during the…
Adam Clarke
The nations also heard of him - The king of Egypt, whose subjects were of divers nations, marched against Jerusalem, took Jehoahaz prisoner, and brought him to Egypt. Thus: -
He was taken in their…
Here are, I. Orders given to the prophet to bewail the fall of the royal family, which had long made so great a figure by virtue of a covenant of royalty made with David and his seed, so that the…
Captivity of Jehoahaz in Egypt
2. How was thy mother a lioness! among the lions;
In the midst of young lions she couched she reared her whelps.
3. And she brought up one of her whelps he grew a…
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