Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 21:13

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13. the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab —Captives doomed to destruction were sometimes grouped together and marked off by means of a measuring-line and plummet ( 2 Samuel 8:2 ; Isaiah 34:11 ; Amos 7:7 ); so that the line of Samaria means the line drawn for the destruction of Samaria; the plummet of the house of Ahab, for exterminating his apostate family; and the import of the threatening declaration here is that Judah would be utterly destroyed, as Samaria and the dynasty of Ahab had been. I will wipe Jerusalem, &c.—The same doom is denounced more strongly in a figure unmistakably significant. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-14" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-2ki-21-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/2ki-21-13

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological