To build up siege mounds and construct forts – was the task not of the relief force, but of the besieging army. This means: when soldiers bu…

By casting up mounts.— This translation implies that “the casting up mounts and building forts” was to be Pharaoh’s action; but su…

Just as Ezekiel has previously declared that great forces were not needed when God intended to punish Zedekiah through the king of Babylon, so he n…

Neither shall Pharaoh, with [his] mighty army and great
company ,
make fo…

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…