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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 33:27
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Say thou thus unto them, thus saith the Lord God, &c.] Send or write unto them in the name of the Lord, after this manner, as I live, which is the form of an oath; the Lord swears by himself his life, because he could swear by no greater, and for the confirmation of what follows: surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword; by their own sword, falling out one with another; or by the sword of Ishmael (<244102>Jeremiah 41:2,3) or by the sword of the Chaldeans, who revenged the death of Gedaliah and others; even such who dwelt amidst the ruins of the city of Jerusalem, and other places, that were become desolate through the ravages of the enemy: and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured; of which it may be supposed there were the greater numbers, since the land was so depopulated: and they that be in the forts, and in the caves, shall die of the pestilence; such as were in fortified cities, or in caverns of the earth, dug in rocks and mountains, where, in neither of them, men and beasts could easily come at them; here the Lord would send his arrow, the plague, that flies by day, and reach them, and destroy them; none can escape his hands; these are three of the Lord’s sore judgments, the sword, pestilence, and noisome beasts.
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