Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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Gill's Exposition
Thy seed had also been as the sand,.... Upon the sea shore, as numerous as that, as was promised to Abraham, Gen 22:17,
and the offspring of thy bowels as the gravel thereof; that is, of the sand;…
Barnes' Notes
Thy seed also - Instead of being reduced to a small number by the calamities incident to war, and being comparatively a small and powerless people sighing in captivity, you would have been a numerous…
Here, as before, Jacob and Israel are summoned to hearken to the prophet speaking in God's name, or rather to God speaking in and by the prophet, and that as a type of the great prophet by whom God…
Cambridge Bible
as the sand A common comparison; see ch. Isa 10:22; Gen 22:17; Hos 1:10 &c.
like the gravel thereof Lit. the grains thereof. The word used resembles a fem. plur. of that which immediately precedes…
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