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he took.20beat.De 29:23; 1Ki 12:25; 2Ki 3:25; Ps 107:34; *marg:Eze 47:11; Zep 2:9; Jas 2:13sowed.Salt in small quantities renders land extremely fertile; but too much of it destroys vegetation. Every place, says Pliny, in which salt is found is barren, and produces nothing. Hence the sowing of a place with salt was a custom in different nations to express permanent desolation. Sigonius observes, that when Milan was taken, A.D. 1162, the walls were razed, and it was sown with salt. And Brantome informs us, that it was an ancient custom in France, to sow the house of a man with salt, who had been declared a traitor to his king. Charles IX., king of France, the most base and perfidious of human beings, caused the house of Admiral Coligni (whom he and the Duke of Guise caused to be murdered, with thousands more of Protestants, on the eve of St. Bartholomew, 1572,) to be sown with salt!Judges 9:50
Thebez.According to Eusebius, thirteen miles from Shechem, towards Scythopolis. 50Judges 9:56-57
God rendered.Both the fratricide Abimelech and the unprincipled men of Shechem had the iniquity visited upon them of which they had been guilty. Man's judgment may be avoided; but there is no escape from that of God. How many houses have been sown with salt in France, by the just judgment of God, for the massacre of the Protestants on the eve of St. Bartholomew! See Note on ver. 45. 24; Job 31:3; Ps 9:12; 11:6; 58:10,11; 94:23; Pr 5:22; Mt 7:2Ac 28:4; Ga 6:7; Re 19:20,21 upon them.20,45; Jos 6:26; 1Ki 16:342 Kings 6:24-25
gathered.17:5; 18:9; 25:1; De 28:52; 1Ki 20:1; 22:31; Ec 9:14 a great famine.28,29; 7:4; 25:3; 1Ki 18:2; Jer 14:13-15,18; 32:24; 52:6an ass's head.If the pieces of silver were {drachms,} the whole would amount to about 2£. 9s.; which was a great price for so mean a part of this unclean animal. Eze 4:13-16dove's dung.This probably denotes, as Bochart, Scheuchzer, and others suppose, a kind of {pulse,} or {vetches,} which the Arabs still call pigeon's dung. "They never," says Dr. Shaw, (Travels, p. 140), "constitute a dish by themselves, but are strewed singly as a garnish over {cuscasowe, pillowe,} and other dishes. They are besides in the greatest repute after they are parched in pans and ovens; then assuming the name {leblebby;}" and he thinks they were so called from being pointed at one end, and acquiring an ash colour in parching.2 Kings 18:9-12
A.M. 3281. B.C. 723. the fourth year.1; 17:4-6Shalmaneser.17:3-23; Ho 10:14Shalman. A.M. 3283. B.C. 721. they took it.Ho 13:16; Am 3:11-15; 4:1-3; 6:7; 9:1-4; Mic 1:6-9; 6:16; 7:13 the king.17:6; 19:11; 1Ch 5:26; Isa 7:8; 8:4; 9:9-21; 10:5,11; 37:12; Ho 8:8,9Ho 9:3; Am 5:1-3,6,25-27; Ac 7:43Halah.It is thought, with much probability, that Halah, or Chalach, is Ptolemy's Calachene, the northern part of Assyria; that Habor, or Chabor, is the mountain or mountainous country, between Media and Assyria, called by Ptolemy, [Chaboras,] Chaboras; and that Gozan is Gauzanitis of Ptolemy, situated between that mountain and the Caspian sea, and between the two channels of the river Cyrus. they obeyed not.17:7-23; De 8:20; 11:28; 29:24-28; 31:17; Ne 9:17,26,27; Ps 107:17Isa 1:19; Jer 3:8; 7:23; Da 9:6-11; Mic 3:4; 2Th 1:8; 1Pe 2:8; 4:17Moses.Nu 12:7; De 34:5; Jos 1:1; 2Ti 2:24; Heb 3:5,62 Kings 25:1-4
1 Jerusalem is besieged.4 Zedekiah taken, his sons slain, his eyes put out.8 Nebuzar-adan defaces the city, carries the remnant, except a few poor labourers, into captivity;13 and spoils and carries away the treasures.18 The nobles are slain at Riblah.22 Gedaliah, who was over them that remained, being slain, the rest flee into Egypt.27 Evil-merodach advances Jehoiachin in his court. A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. in the ninth.This according to the computation of Archbishop Usher, was on Thursday, January 30th, A.M. 3414, which was a sabbatical year; wherein they proclaimed liberty to their servants, according to the law, but soon enthralled them again. (See Jer 34:8-10.) 2Ch 36:17-21; Jer 34:2,3-6; 39:1-10; 52:4,5-11; Eze 24:1,2-14Nebuchadnezzar.24:1,10; 1Ch 6:15; Jer 27:8; 32:28; 43:10; 51:34; Eze 26:7Nebuchadrezzar.Da 4:1-18pitched.Isa 29:3; Jer 32:24; Eze 4:1-8; 21:22-24; Lu 19:43,44 2 A.M. 3416. B.C. 588. the ninth day.Jer 39:2; 52:6; Zec 8:19the famine.Le 26:26; De 28:52,53; La 4:4-10; Eze 4:9-17; 5:10,12; 7:15; 14:21there was no.Jer 37:21; 38:2 the city.This being the ninth day of the fourth month, corresponded to Wednesday, July 27. Jer 5:10; 39:2,3; 52:6,7-11; Eze 33:21fled.Le 26:17,36; De 28:25; 32:24,25,30; Jer 39:4-7and the king.5; Eze 12:12Luke 19:43-44
the days.21:20-24; De 28:49-58; Ps 37:12,13; Da 9:26,27; Mt 22:7; 23:37-39Mr 13:14-20; 1Th 2:15,16cast.Or, "cast a bank" or rampart [charax .] This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by Titus; who surrounded it with a wall of circumvallation in three days, though not less than 39 furlongs in circumference; and when this was effected, the Jews were so enclosed on every side, that no person could escape from the city, and no provision could be brought in. Isa 29:1-4; Jer 6:3-6 lay.1Ki 9:7,8; Mic 3:12thy children.13:34,35; Mt 23:37,38leave.21:6; Mt 24:2; Mr 13:2because.42; 1:68,78; La 1:8; Da 9:24; Joh 3:18-21; 1Pe 2:12
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