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Your crowned are as the locust, and your captains as the great locusts - What he had said summarily under metaphor, the prophet exp…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Your crowned. —The subordinate kings who represent the Assyrian empire in its tributary provinces.
Captains.
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
What marvelous poetry is this! How terrible! Their soldiers, their rulers, their captains, were as many as the locusts and the grasshoppers; but wh…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
From these words we may learn what the Prophet previously meant when he said that the Assyrians were like locusts or chafers; as if he said, "I kno…
John Gill
JohnGill
Your crowned men [are] as the locusts
Tributary kings, and hired officers, as some think, who might be distinguished…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
Strongholds, even the strongest, are no defense against the judgments of God. They will be unable to do anything for themselves.
The Chaldea…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes