2Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
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Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The prophet had faithfully delivered the message he was entrusted with, in the close of the foregoing chapter, in the terms wherein he received it, not daring to add his own comment upon it; but, when he complained that the people found fault with him for speaking parables, the word of the Lord came to him again, and gave him a key to that figurative discourse, that with it he might let the people…
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