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It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
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A City Under Siege
Commentators paint a vivid picture of Jerusalem's dire situation. The city's most beautiful and fertile valleys, once symbols of God's blessing, are now filled with enemy war chariots. The invaders are not far off; they are positioned in battle formation right at the city gates, signifying an immediate and overwhelming threat.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your choicest valleys - Hebrew, ‘The choice of your galleys;’ meaning the most fertile and most valued lands in the vicinity of the…
19th Century
Anglican
That thy choicest valleys ... —These were the valleys of Gibeon, Rephaim, Hinnom, and Jehoshaphat, which encircled Jerusa…
16th Century
Protestant
And the choice of the valleys was full of chariots. I do not find fault with the translation given by some interpreters, “in a chariot of …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it shall come to pass, [that] your choicest valleys. The valleys that were near Jerusalem, that used to be covered wi…
Why is Jerusalem in such terror? Her slain men are not slain with the sword, but with famine; or, slain with fear, disheartened. Their rulers fled,…
13th Century
Catholic
The burden of the valley. Here the prophet issues a threat against those who were joined to the people of God by their position of…
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