I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
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Gill's Exposition
I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts,.... The roll was come forth, and was flying abroad; but the curse and wrath of God, signified by it, is what God would bring forth out of his treasures,…
Barnes' Notes
I will bring it forth - Out of the treasure-house, as it were; as he says, “He bringeth forth the wind out of His treasures” Jer 10:13; Jer 51:16; and, “Is not this laid up in store with Me, sealed up…
Adam Clarke
Into the house of him - Babylon, the house or city of Nebuchadnezzar, who was a public plunderer, and a most glaring idolater.
We do not find that the prophet now needed to be awakened, as he did Zac 4:1. Being awakened then, he kept wakeful after; nay, now he needs not be so much as called to look about him, for of his own…
Cambridge Bible
it shall remain abide, R. V., "until it has accomplished that for which it was sent, its utter destruction." Pusey.
Mr Wright in his commentary quotes, in illustration of the curse abiding till it…
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