17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
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Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house. …
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place,(whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)In these verses, I. The prophet threatens, in God’s name, the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem, Jer. 10:17 , 18 . The Jews that continued in their own land, after some were carried into captivity, were very secure; they thought themselves inhabitants of a fortress ; their country was their strong hold, and, in their own conceit, impregnable; but they are here told to think of leaving it: th…
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