Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 36:12

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12. Is it to thy master and thee that I am sent? Nay, it is to the men on the wall, to let them know (so far am I from wishing them not to hear, as you would wish), that unless they surrender, they shall be reduced to the direst extremities of famine in the siege ( :- , explains the word here), namely, to eat their own excrements: or, connecting, "that they may eat," c., with "sit upon the wall" who, as they hold the wall, are knowingly exposing themselves to the direst extremities [MAURER]. Isaiah, as a faithful historian, records the filthy and blasphemous language of the Assyrians to mark aright the true character of the attack on Jerusalem. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-13" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-isa-36-003

절 (explains)

bible-text/isa-36-12

Source

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