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12He shall cut off{H8799)} the spirit of princes: he is terrible{H8737)} to the kings of the earth.
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I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. …
And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-12)This glorious victory with which God had graced and blessed his church is here made to speak three things:— I. Terror to God’s enemies (Ps. 76:7-9): “ Thou, even thou, art to be feared ; thy majesty is to be reverenced, thy sovereignty to be submitted to, and thy justice to be dreaded by those that have offended thee.” Let all the world learn by this event to stand in awe of the great God. 1. Let…
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