And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
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Gill's Exposition
And I will prepare destroyers against thee,.... The Chaldeans, men of savage dispositions, bent upon the destruction of their neighbours; and who had already destroyed many nations, and so fit…
Barnes' Notes
Prepare - i. e., consecrate, see Jer 6:4 note. Thy choice cedars - The chief members of the royal lineage and the leading officers of state.
Here we have,
I. Orders given to Jeremiah to go and preach before the king. In the foregoing chapter we are told that Zedekiah sent messengers to the prophet, but here the prophet is bidden to go, in…
Cambridge Bible
prepare lit. as mg. sanctify. See on Jer 6:4, and cp. Isa 13:3.
thy choice cedars the chief men of the State.
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