7And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. …
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)That it is Jerusalem which is here called Ariel is agreed, for that was the city where David dwelt; that part of it which was called Zion was in a particular manner the city of David, in which both the temple and the palace were. But why it is so called is very uncertain: probably the name and the reason were then well known. Cities, as well as persons, get surnames and nicknames. Ariel signifies…
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