Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
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Gill's Exposition
The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them,.... Meaning the cities of Judah, which lay in the southern part of the land of Israel, and to the south of Babylon; which might be…
Barnes' Notes
The queen - i. e., “the queen-mother:” the word signifies literally “the great lady.” The king’s mother took precedence of his wives. Sit down - The usual position of slaves. For your principalities…
Here is, I. A judgment threatened against this people that would quite intoxicate them. This doom is pronounced against them in a figure, to make it the more taken notice of and the more affecting…
Address to the king and the queen-mother
The highest shall be brought low, and the land with its cities emptied by universal captivity.
Graf and Du. make the king to be Jehoiakim and thus the…
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