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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 43:9
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Take great stones in thine hand, etc.] In both his hands, as big as he could carry: and hide them in the clay in the brick kiln; there was much clay in Egypt, through the overflowing of the Nile, and particularly at this place Tahpanhes, which had its name of Pelusiae from hence; and here was a brick kiln; not a place where bricks were burnt, but where they were foraged; and so here was the clay of which they were made, and in which these stones were to be hid: which [is] at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes; this brick kiln stood not directly at the entrance into the king’s palace, but at the door of a wall of a park or garden, which belonged to the palace, from whence there was an open way to it; here the stones were to be laid. Since a brick kiln so near a king’s palace seems not agreeable, Gussetiusf777 thinks ˆblm signifies a poplar walk, from hnbl, a poplar tree, whose shade is very grateful, (<280413>Hosea 4:13); to which the courtiers betook themselves at certain times, and walked in for pleasure; in the sight of the men of Judah; not in the sight of the Egyptians, who would not understand the design of it, nor were they to be instructed by it; but in the sight of the Jews, who would at once imagine that something was intended, being used to such symbols, and would inquire the meaning of it; and which is explained in (<244310>Jeremiah 43:10).
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