14That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
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That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! …
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)Kings, though they are gods to us, are men to God, and shall die like men ; so it appears in these verses, where we have a sentence of death passed upon two kings who reigned successively in Jerusalem, two brothers, and both the ungracious sons of a very pious father. I. Here is the doom of Shallum, who doubtless is the same with Jehoahaz, for he is that son of Josiah king of Judah who reigned in…
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