4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
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Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. …
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The prophet, in the close of the foregoing chapter, had given a necessary caution to all not to put confidence in man, or any creature; he had also given a general reason for that caution, taken from the frailty of human life and the vanity and weakness of human powers. Here he gives a particular reason for it—God was now about to ruin all their creature-confidences, so that they should meet with…
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