And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
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Gill's Exposition
And I will drive thee from thy station,.... Or thou shalt be driven from it, according to my word; this is said by the prophet, and expresses his being degraded from his office by the king, according…
Barnes' Notes
And from thy state - From thy office; thy place of trust and responsibility. Shall he pull thee down - That is, “God” shall do it. The prophet here uses the third person instead of the first. Such a…
We have here a prophecy concerning the displacing of Shebna, a great officer at court, and the preferring of Eliakim to the post of honour and trust that he was in. Such changes are common in the…
Cambridge Bible
The subject here is Jehovah; the change of person resembles that in Isa 10:12. After Isa 22:22, the verse reads like an anti-climax, but it is added to prepare for