John Gill's Exposition on Isaiah 17:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And in that day it shall come to pass, &c.] It being much about the same time that both kingdoms were destroyed by the Assyrians: [that] the glory of Jacob shall be made thin; the same with Ephraim and Israel, the ten tribes, whose glory lay in the superior number of their tribes to Judah; in the multitude of their cities, and the inhabitants of them; but now would be thinned, by the vast numbers that should be carried captive: and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean: like a man in a consumption, that is become a mere skeleton, and reduced to skin and bones: the meaning is, that all their wealth and riches should be taken away; so the Targum, “and the riches of his glory shall be carried away.”

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