And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
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Gill's Exposition
I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land,.... Either of their own land, the land of Judea; and so the Septuagint version, "in the gates of my people"; alluding to the custom of winnowing…
Barnes' Notes
I will fan them ... - Or, “I have winnowed them with a winnowing shovel.” The “gates of the land” mean the places by which men enter or leave it. As God winnows them they are driven out of the land…
We scarcely find any where more pathetic expressions of divine wrath against a provoking people than we have here in these verses. The prophet had prayed earnestly for them, and found some among them…
Cambridge Bible
I have fanned them with a fan "Fan, whether verb or noun, is now practically obsolete in the sense here intended." Dr. p. 360. We should rather render, Have winnowed them with a winnowing-fork. The…
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