The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
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Gill's Exposition
Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north,.... There are a Keri and a Cetib of the words "lift up" and "behold"; they are written in the singular number, and may be considered as…
Barnes' Notes
Shall be shut up - Rather, “are shut up, and no man openeth them.” The cities of the Negeb, the southern district of Judah, are blockaded, with no one to raise the siege. The captivity was the…
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…
Cambridge Bible
the South Heb. the Negeb, a barren region in the S. of Judah (see Gen 12:9 mg.), whose cities are named Jos 15:21-32. The sense is: none shall escape, not even those most remote from the point at…
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