Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
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Gill's Exposition
Let them be blotted out of the book of life,.... Which some understand of this animal life, or of the catalogue of living saints; of their being not written among the living in Jerusalem, or in the…
Barnes' Notes
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living - That is, Let them cease to live; let them not be numbered among living people; let them be cut off. This language is taken from the custom of…
These imprecations are not David's prayers against his enemies, but prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors, especially the Jewish nation, which our Lord himself foretold with tears, and…
Cambridge Bible
the book of the living Or, as R.V., the book of life. The figure is borrowed from the lists or registers of citizens (Jer 22:30; Eze 13:9). God has a book in which the names of those who are to be…
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