25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-26)The prophet’s business was to show all sorts of people what they had contributed to the national guilt and what share they must expect in the national judgments that were coming. Here he reproves and warns the daughters of Zion, tells the ladies of their faults; and Moses, in the law, having denounced God’s wrath against the tender and delicate woman (the prophets being a comment upon the law, Deu…
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