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Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
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The Language of Judgment
Commentators agree that the verse uses hyperbole—exaggerated language—to paint a picture of total and devastating judgment. Phrases like 'mountains shall be melted with their blood' are not literal but are meant to convey the immense scale of the slaughter and the inescapable nature of God's wrath against His enemies.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Their slain also shall be cast out - They would lie unburied. The slaughter would be so extensive, and the desolation would be so e…
16th Century
Protestant
Their slain shall be cast out. By this circumstance, he shows that it will be a great calamity. For if a few persons are slain, they are c…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Their slain also shall be cast out Upon the open fields, and there lie unburied, and become meat for the fowls of heaven,…
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13th Century
Catholic
Come near, you Gentiles. In this part, he threatens those who were allies of the Assyrians.
First, he threatens al…