This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
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Gill's Exposition
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth, &c. Or, "counsel that is counselled". The Targum is,
"all the inhabitants of the earth;''
and the Septuagint version, "the whole world",…
Barnes' Notes
This is the purpose - This is the sum of the whole design - a design that embraces the destruction both of the king of Assyria, and of Babylon. Upon the whole earth - The successive kingdoms of…
The destruction of Babylon and the Chaldean empire was a thing at a great distance; the empire had not risen to any considerable height when its fall was here foretold: it was almost 200 years from…
This plan of Jehovah embraces the destinies of all nations (see ch. Isa 28:22; Isa 10:23; Isa 8:9). The expression "the whole earth" is not to be restricted to the Assyrian Empire, nor on the other…
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