11Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; …
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden:(now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)What is meant by the covering of Judah , which in the beginning of this paragraph is said to be discovered , is not agreed. The fenced cities of Judah were a covering to the country; but these, being taken by the army of the Assyrians, ceased to be a shelter, so that the whole country lay exposed to be plundered. The weakness of Judah, its nakedness, and inability to keep itself, now appeared more…
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