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Chapter and Strabo 7 Chaboras or Aboras y and by Pliny Lib.
I. I. c. xxvi. Cobaris.
o**v>0 Ver. 2. Which was in the Fifth Tear of Jehoia-
Verfe 2, £zVs Captivity] This was coincident with the Thir-
teenth Year of Nebuchadnezzar's Reign : For Jehoiakin
was carried Captive in the Eighth Year of
his Reign :, fee 2 Kings xxiv. 12. the Hebrew Wri-
ters ufe feveral Computations of the beginning of the
Babylonifl Captivity: fee the Note upon J-erem. xxv.
1 1 .That under Jehoiakin^ wherein Ezekiel was made
a Captive, is the Computation he always follows in
the fucceeding parts of his Prophecy -
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viii. 1.. xx. f. xxix 1, 17. xxxi. 1. xxxiii. 1. xl. 1.
Verfe 3. Ver. 3. The word of the Lord came exprejly
cxc] The word of the Lord fignifies any fort of
Revelation, whether by Vifion, fuch as is related
in the following Verfes, or by a Voice, as Chap.
ii. 3.
Ibid. And the hand of the Lord was there upon
him~\ He feltfenfible Impreflions of God's pow-
er and Spirit. Compare Chap. iii. 14, 22. viii. 1.
xxviii. 1. xl. 1. i Kings xviii. 46.2 Kings iii. 15.
Verfe 4. Ver. 4. And I looked, and behold a Whirlwind
came out of the North] God's Anger and Judgments
are often compared to a Whirlwind ^ fee Ifa. xx ;
. j.
Jerem. xxiii. 19. xxv. 32. Pfal. Iviii. 9. it isdefcribed
here as coming out of the North, becaufe of the
Northerly Situation of Babylon with refpect tojudea.
Compare Jer. i. 13. iv. 6. vi. 1. and Chap.
xliii. 3. of this Prophecy.
Ibid. A great Cloud, and a Fire infoldi?ig itfelf
and a brightnefs was about it] The divine Pre fence
is ufually defcribed in Scripture, as a bright Light
or flaming Fire breaking out of a thick Cloud j
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