4Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here, I. The prophet is ordered to address himself to the Ammonites, in the name of the Lord Jehovah the God of Israel , who is also the God of the whole earth. But what can Chemosh, the god of the children of Ammon, say, in answer to it? He is bidden to set his face against the Ammonites , for he is God’s representative as a prophet, and thus he must signify that God set his face against them , f…
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