8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
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The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here are, I. Orders given to the prophet to bewail the fall of the royal family, which had long made so great a figure by virtue of a covenant of royalty made with David and his seed, so that the eclipsing and extinguishing of it are justly lamented by all who know what value to put upon the covenant of our God , as we find, after a very large account of that covenant with David ( Ps. 89:3 , 20 ),…
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