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upon EZEK IEL. 1 6
Ibid. eAnd what if the Sword contemn even the Chapter
Rod?] The Scepter and Royal Family : SeeVer. XXI.
10. t/V%J
Ibid. It flail be no more, faith the Lord.] See
Ver. 27.
Ver. 14. Smite thy Hands together.] See Numb. Ver. 14,
xxiv. 10. and Ver. 12, of this Chapter.
Ibid. oAnd let the Sword be doubled the third
time.] The Expreflion may import, Firft the
Slaughter made at the Siege : then thofe that were
flain at the taking of the City ;
may be reckoned the Sons oiZedekiah, as alfothe
Chief Priefts and principal Officers of State, who
were taken and put to Death immediately afterward
: See Ver. 14. and 2 Kjngs xxv. 7, 18, 19,
20, 21. To thefe may be added in the third Place,
thofe who were flain with Gedaliah, Jerem. xli. 2,
3. But perhaps the Expreflion, Let the Sword be
doubled a third time, may mean no more than ifthe
Prophet had fa id, Let the Stroke be repeated twice
and thrice, i. e. often times. So that Phrafe is
ufed Job xxxiii. 29. aAJlthefe Things worketh God
twice and thrice with Man, where our Tranflation
very fitly exprefTes the Senfe Oftentimes. A Form
of Speech much like thofe elfewhere ufed, For three
Tranfgrejfions and for four, aAmos i. $. Give a
in which number
Tortion to [even, yea alfo to eight, EccleJ. xi. 2.
Ibid. It is the Sword of the Great Men that
are Slain, which entreth into their Trivy Cham-
bers.] Whither they went to hide themfelves.
See 1 Kjngs xxii. 2$.
Ver. 15. I have fet the point of the SwordVQr.i*
againft all their Gates.] The Word Ibchath, transited
the Toint, is to be found but in this one
Y Place