The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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Gill's Exposition
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world,.... Not only the neighbouring nations, and the kings of them, but even such in all parts of the world that knew anything of Jerusalem:…
Barnes' Notes
Though Jerusalem had been several times captured 1Ki 14:26; 2Ki 14:13; 2Ki 23:33-35, yet it had been so strongly fortified by Uzziah and his successors as to have been made virtually impregnable. Its…
Adam Clarke
The kings of the earth - Jerusalem was so well fortified, both by nature and art, that it appeared as a miracle that it should be taken at all.
The elegy in this chapter begins with a lamentation of the very sad and doleful change which the judgments of God had made in Jerusalem. The city that was formerly as gold, as the most fine gold, so…
Cambridge Bible
all the inhabitants of the world an ordinary form of Eastern hyperbole, suggesting to their minds only the same notion as our every body, the obvious limitations being given by the sense in each case.…
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