5For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken. …
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The first words of this chapter plainly refer to the close of the foregoing chapter, where every thing looked black and melancholy: Behold, trouble, and darkness, and dimness —very bad, yet not so bad but that to the upright there shall arise light in the darkness (Ps. 112:4) and at evening time it shall be light , Zech. 14:7. Nevertheless it shall not be such dimness (either not such for kind or…
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