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that say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

It is not near – In contradiction to Ezekiel 7:2.

Let us build houses – “To build houses” implies a sense of…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

It is not near; let us build houses. Neither the text nor the marginal reading of the Authorised Version quite accurately…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

Here the Prophet explains what might be obscure through their perversity. He brings forward, therefore, what the ungodly thought could be covered b…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Which say [it is] not near, let us build houses
Meaning that the destruction of the city was not near, as the prophe…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Where Satan cannot persuade people to look upon the judgment to come as uncertain, he gains his point by persuading them to look upon it as distant…

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