At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... Because of their vain confidence, added to their perjury and perfidy:
because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered; their old sins, by committing new…
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…
Adam Clarke
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem - He had probably written on two arrows; one, Jerusalem; the other, Riblath; the third, left blank. He drew, and that on which Jerusalem was written…
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
at his right hand in his right hand is the lot (or, oracle) "Jerusalem," to set battering rams, to open the mouth with a cry. Though "battering rams" occurs again in the verse the word can have no…
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