John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 14:17

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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[That] made the world as a wilderness, &c.] Both by destroying the inhabitants of it, and by laying waste cities, towns, villages, fields, vineyards, gardens, and all places improved and cultivated, wherever he came, as it follows: and destroyed the cities thereof; as the Assyrian kings had done, some of which are mentioned in (<231009>Isaiah 10:9 37:11-13,18): [that] opened not the house of his prisoners; the prison house, in, which they were held; or, “the gate to his prisoners,” as the Targum; or rather the words may be rendered, “that opened not to his prisoners”, that they might go “home”; or as Deuteronomy Dieu, in short, yet fully, expresses it, “that did not dismiss his prisoners home”; he not only cruelly and inhumanly put many to the sword, but such as surrendered, and were taken captives, he detained them in prison, and would not loose their bonds, but let them die there; which was an instance of great cruelty and inhumanity.

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