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Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
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Efforts Against God Are Futile
Commentators unanimously interpret this verse as an ironic or sarcastic challenge. God tells Nineveh to perform all the necessary preparations for a siege—store water, strengthen walls, and make bricks—to highlight the absolute futility of their efforts. Scholars explain that no amount of human preparation or fortification can withstand the determined judgment of God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strongholds - This is not mere mockery at man’s weakness, when they would resist God. I…
19th Century
Anglican
Draw your waters. —In this desperate plight, Nineveh is mockingly advised to prolong her resistance. The outer walls are broken do…
Baptist
Fortify your strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.
That was, to mend the walls whenever they …
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet continues with the same subject: that the Ninevites would work in vain, while striving anxiously and with every effort to defend themse…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Draw thee waters for the siege Before the siege is begun, fetch water from the river, wells, or fountains without th…
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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