Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Lamentations 2:9

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Her gates cannot oppose the entrance of the foe into the city, for they are sunk under a mass of rubbish and earth. broken . . . bars-- (Jer 51:30). her king . . . among . . . Gentiles-- (Deu 28:36). law . . . no more-- (Ch2 15:3). The civil and religious laws were one under the theocracy. "All the legal ordinances (prophetical as well as priestly) of the theocracy, are no more" (Psa 74:9; Eze 7:26).

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