In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
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Gill's Exposition
In that day will I make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood,.... As a large hearth of fire, with wood all about it, devours and consumes it; so shall the governors of Judah be…
Barnes' Notes
I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth - or “cauldron” of fire large, broad, deep, and full of fire, among the wood which is prepared for burning, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf The…
Adam Clarke
Jerusalem shall be inhabited again - This seems to refer to the future conversion of the Jews, and their "return to their own land."
Here is, I. The title of this charter of promises made to God's Israel; it is the burden of the word of the Lord, a divine prediction; it is of weight in the delivery of it; it is to be pressed upon…
Cambridge Bible
a hearth Rather, pan. The word is used in 1Sa 2:14 of a "pan," or cooking vessel. Elsewhere it is a bason or laver, Exo 30:18; Exo 30:28; 1Ki 7:38; and once a pulpit or platform, 2Ch 6:13. Here the…
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