27But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. …
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. …
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-27)Our Lord Jesus is now upon his way to Jerusalem, to his last passover, when he was to suffer and die; now here we are told, I. How the expectations of his friends were raised upon this occasion: They thought that the kingdom of God would immediately appear , Luke 19:11. The Pharisees expected it about this time (Luke 17:20), and, it seems, so did Christ’s own disciples; but they both had a mistake…
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