7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here we have a prophecy, as elsewhere we have a history, of the wars of the Lord, which we are sure are all both righteous and successful. This world, as it is his creature, he does good to; but as it is in the interest of Satan, who is called the god of this world , he fights against it. I. Here is the trumpet sounded and the war proclaimed, Isa. 34:1. All nations must hear and hearken, not only…
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