4And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
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And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah. …
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Israel was very much disgraced and weakened by being divided into two kingdoms; yet the kingdom of Judah, having both the temple and the royal city, both the house of David and the house of Aaron, might have done very well if they had continued in the way of their duty; but here we have all out of order there. I. Rehoboam and his people left God: He forsook the law of the Lord , and so in effect f…
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