That they may eat … – <\/B>My master hath sent me, the Rab-shakeh seems to say, to these men, whom I see stationed on the wall to defend the place and bear the last extremities of a prolonged siege – these men on whom its worst evils will fall, and who have therefore the greatest interest in avoiding it by a timely surrender. He expresses the evils by a strong coarse phrase, suited to the rude soldiery, and well calculated to rouse their feelings. The author of Chronicles has softened down the words 2Ch 32:11<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 27. That they may eat their own dung<\/B><\/I>] That they may be duly apprised, if they hold on Hezekiah’s side, Jerusalem shall be most straitly besieged, and they be reduced to such a state of famine<\/I> as to be obliged to eat their own excrements.<\/P> <\/p>\n To tell them to what extremities and miseries he will force them. <\/P> <\/p>\n 27. that they may eat,<\/B> &c.Thiswas designed to show the dreadful extremities to which, in thethreatened siege, the people of Jerusalem would be reduced.<\/P><\/p>\n [See comments on 2Ki 18:17]<\/span><\/p>\n (27) Hath my master . . .<\/strong>Rather, Is it to thy lord and to thee that my lord hath sent me to speak these words?<\/em> <\/p>\n The men which sit on the wall<\/strong>i.e.,<\/em> the soldiers on guard.<\/p>\n That they may eat<\/strong> . . .<\/strong>These coarse words are meant to express the consequence<\/em> of their resistance: it will bring them to such dire straits that they will be fain to appease the cravings of hunger and thirst with the vilest garbage. (Comp. 2Ki. 6:25<\/span> seq.<\/em>)<\/p>\n 27<\/strong>. <\/strong> That they may eat their own dung <\/strong> “He says in substance: Ye are abusing your common people. In exposing them to a wasting siege ye are bringing them, with yourselves, into the direct extremity, so that they will at last be compelled to consume their own excrement.” Bahr<\/em>.<\/p>\n 2Ki 18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?<\/p>\n Ver. 27. Hath he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall?<\/strong> ] The soldiers and common sort, of whom your master and you take little care what extremities they undergo, as they are shortly sure to do by a long siege.<\/p>\n eat: 2Ki 6:25, Deu 28:53-57, Psa 73:8, Lam 4:5, Eze 4:13, Eze 4:15 <\/p>\n their own piss: Heb. the water of their feet <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Ch 32:11 – to give over Isa 36:11 – in the Syrian Isa 36:12 – that they may Hos 8:1 – the house Nah 2:13 – the voice<\/p>\n 2Ki 18:27-29. Hath he not sent me to the men, &c. To tell them to what extremity and misery he will force them. Then Rab-shakeh cried with a loud voice in the Jews language That he might affright the people into a compliance with his proposal, which he perceived that Eliakim and his brethren endeavoured to prevent. Thus saith the king, &c. Here he proclaims again, with the greatest assurance, the power of his king, and the weakness of Hezekiah; representing from thence, how they were deluded with empty promises if he persuaded them he should be able to defend them.<\/p>\n But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? That they may eat … – My master … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 18:27”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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