John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 13:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes, &c.] Upon the ground, or against the wall, as was foretold should be, (<19D708>Psalm 137:8,9) and in way of retaliation for what they did to the Jews, (<143617>2 Chronicles 36:17) and this was to be done “before their eyes”, in the sight of the inhabitants, which must make it the more distressing and afflicting; and, as Kimchi observes, this phrase is to be applied to the following clauses: their houses shall be spoiled; plundered of the substance, wealth, and riches in them, by the Persian soldiers: and their wives ravished; by the same, and both before their eyes, and after that slain, in like manner as they had ravished the women in Zion, (<250511>Lamentations 5:11).

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