The whole city ... - Rather, every city is fleeing. All the inhabitants of the settlements flee to Jerusalem for protection, or see…

The horsemen and bowmen. — A specially characteristic picture, as we see from the Nineveh sculptures, of Assyrian and Chaldean arm…

Now all this did happen. It all came to pass. Palestine, the glorious garden of God, was made as dreary as a wilderness. It is not much better now.…

By saying that at the voice or sound of horsemen and bowmen there would be a universal flight, he means that the enemies would co…

The whole city shall flee
Or, "every city"; for not Jerusalem only is meant, but every city, or the inhabitants of e…

The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion.

Compared with what it was,…

1. Here, he shows the effect of the destruction on the common people of the Jews.

1. He discusses their fear, which he signifies b…