For the sword of the enemy - literally, “for to the enemy a sword; that is, for the enemy is armed,” he has a commission from God to execute…

The field. — i.e., the open country. To pa beyond the walls of the beleaguered city would be full of danger. The warning …

He confirms the previous verse. For the Jews, as it has been said, regarded all threats as nothing. It was therefore necessary that they should be …

Go not forth into the field
Either for pleasure, or for business; to take a walk in it for the air, or to till it, p…

God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered…

1. Here, he describes the coming of the enemy explicitly.

First, he describes the nature of the enemy.

Second, the incorrigibi…