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The "Fiery Oven" of Judgment
Commentators explain that the image of a "fiery oven" signifies complete and terrifying destruction for God's enemies. Whether being cast into a furnace or, as one scholar suggests, becoming a furnace unto themselves, the picture is one of total consumption by divine wrath. This severe imagery, likened to the destruction of Sodom, underscores the seriousness of opposing God and His anointed King.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 21:9
18th Century
Theologian
You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger - You shall consume or destroy them, as if they were burned in a heated oven…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 21:9
19th Century
Bishop
You shall make ... — As it stands, the figure is very obscure. Lamentations 5:10 is not analogous. Here the fire, and n…
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 21:9–11
19th Century
Preacher
The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from…
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John Calvin
On Psalms 21:9
16th Century
Theologian
Thou shalt put them as it were into a furnace of fire. The Psalmist here describes a dreadful kind of vengeance, from which we gather that…
John Gill
On Psalms 21:9
17th Century
Pastor
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven
Some think the allusion is to David's causing the Ammonites to pass through the…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 21:7–13
17th Century
Minister
The psalmist teaches us to look forward with faith, hope, and prayer to what God would do further. The success with which God blessed David was a t…