2 Chronicles 23:20
the captains.2Ki 11:9,10,19Jeremiah 20:2
smote.1:19; 19:14,15; 26:8; 29:26; 36:26; 37:15,16; 38:6; 1Ki 22:272Ch 16:10; 24:21; Am 7:10-13; Mt 5:10-12; 21:35; 23:34-37; Ac 4:3Ac 5:18,40; 7:52; 16:22-24; Heb 11:36,37; Re 2:10; 17:6the stocks.{Hammahpecheth,} from {haphach,} "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow, (De 29:22. Isa 1:7; 10:19,) and seems to signify here a sort of stocks, by which the limbs were distorted into uneasy postures. So the Chaldee, {keephtha} and Jerome, {nervus,} which he explains in his comment as "a kind of wooden fetter, into which the feet were thrust, {vinculi lignei genus, cui pedes inseruntur.} Some learned men understand it as merely signifying a place of confinement, or house of correction; but the word is never used for any of the prisons into which the prophet was afterwards cast; and the punishment seems to have been public and ignominious. in the high.37:13; 38:7; Zec 14:10
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