In the place ... he shall die. —The distinct prophecy of the death of Zedekiah at Babylon is here given in a form to brin…

An explanation of the allegory is now added. The figure being dropped, God shows what He had until now set forth enigmatically. We said the object …

[As] I live, says the Lord God
This is the form of an oath, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe; the Lord swears, in hi…

The parable is explained, and the particulars of the history of the Jewish nation at that time may be traced. Zedekiah had been ungrateful to his b…