Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites , and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
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Gill's Exposition
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem,.... All his divinations, whether by arrows, or by images, or by liver, all directed him to his right hand, to turn to that which led to Jerusalem;…
The third word of judgment. The king of Babylon’s march upon Judaea and upon the Ammonites. Destruction is to go forth not on Judah only, but also on such neighboring tribes as the Ammonites (compare…
The prophet, in the verses before, had shown them the sword coming; he here shows them that sword coming against them, that they might not flatter themselves that by some means or other it should be…
Cambridge Bible
On Rabbah cf. Eze 25:5.
in Jerusalem unto Jerus. For "the defenced" LXX. reads: "in the midst of it," i.e. of Judah.
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