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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 4:29
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The whole city shall flee, etc.] Or, “every city”; for not Jerusalem only is meant, but every city, or the inhabitants of every city; and so the Targum paraphrases it, “all the inhabitants of the land,” who would be put into a panic, and flee: “for” or at the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; of which the army of the enemy would greatly consist: it intimates that the inhabitants of Judea would not stand a battle; but at hearing the sound of the trampling of the horses, and the clattering of the bows and arrows, that the men upon them had, they would flee at once: they shall go into the thickets, and climb upon the rocks; that is, either the horsemen and bowmen, who would pursue the inhabitants into those places: or rather the inhabitants themselves, who would flee thither to hide themselves from their enemies; namely, get into woods and forests, and among the thick trees, and cover themselves; and upon the highest mountains and rocks, and into the holes and caverns of them, and secure themselves from the enemy; (see <402416>Matthew 24:16), the word for “thickets” signifies “clouds”f105; and Kimchi interprets it of places as high as the clouds, as the tops of some mountains are, so that going up to them is like entering into the clouds; and which are sometimes covered with thick trees, and look like clouds; but the Targum explains it of woods or forests: every city shall be forsaken; of its inhabitants: and not a man dwell therein; as the prophet had seen in his vision, (<240425>Jeremiah 4:25), this was to be when a full end was made, not by the Babylonians, but by the Romans.
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