11In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
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Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)When we have read Edom’s doom, no less than utter ruin, it is natural to ask, Why, what evil has he done ? What is the ground of God’s controversy with him? Many things, no doubt, were amiss in Edom; they were a sinful people, and a people laden with iniquity . But that one single crime which is laid to their charge, as filling their measure and bringing this ruin upon them, that for which they he…
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