My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
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Gill's Exposition
Make a chain,.... To bind them; not the robbers, the Chaldeans, but the Jews; in order either to bring them to the bar to be tried for capital crimes hereafter mentioned, or to be led bound in chains…
Barnes' Notes
My secret place - The inner sanctuary, hidden from the multitude, protected by the most high.
Adam Clarke
The robbers shall enter into it - The Chaldeans shall not only destroy the city; but they shall enter the temple, deface it, plunder it, and burn it to the ground.
We have attended the fate of those that are cut off, and are now to attend the flight of those that have an opportunity of escaping the danger; some of them shall escape (Eze 7:16), but what the…
Cambridge Bible
The enemy shall penetrate into the temple and profane it.
turn … from them This most naturally refers to Israel, from whom the Lord will turn his face in anger, cf. Eze 7:7. It might refer to the…
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