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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.
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God's Sovereign Decree
Commentators highlight that the weakness of the nations conquered by Assyria was a direct result of God's divine plan. Just as God had raised up Assyria for His purposes, He also decreed the powerlessness of these other kingdoms. This verse shows that God is sovereign over the rise and fall of all nations, not just Israel.
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2 Kings
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The weakness of the nations exposed to the Assyrian attacks was as much a result of the divine decrees as was the strength of the Assyrians themsel…
19th Century
Anglican
Of small power.— Literally, short-handed. (Isaiah 59:1.) Keil compares the well-known title of Artaxerxes I, …
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Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)
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