þ Idols which indeed are ro Geds,but ſo called by Idolaters. i Fo pay any divine homage unto them.& And proyoke me net to anger by Idols, which are the Work of Mens hands, ( no uncreared Be ings.) Or more generally ayy Works which are contrary to the Law of God. 1 If you do this I will by my Providence do you ne harm, you ſhal! yet enjoy your own Land and proſper. 7 Yet ye have not hearkned unto me s, faith the LORD, that ye might provoke me to anger with the
works of your hands » to your own hurto,. - :
1 Ye heard me, and other the Lord's Prophets thus ſpeaking to you, bur you did not obey, and hearken. » As if you had done it on purpoſe to incenſe me againſt you, who am of my ſelf flow to wrath, and muſt be provoked to execute vindicative Juſtice by Mens own wicked Works, o Which do not otherwiſe aff:&, or hurs * me, bat are to their hurt who do them. x
8 4 Therfore thus ſaith the LORD: of hoſts, Be- cauſe ye have not heard my words p. br.
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'9 Behold, I will ſend and take * all the families of * Chap: | the north, ſaith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the +: 15+ king of Babylon my ſervant q, and will bring them againſt this land, and againſt the inhabitants thereot 7, 2 and againſt all theſe nations round about /, and will « Chip? utterly deſtroy them, and * make them an aftoniſh- 18. 16, ment, and an hifling, and a perpetual deſolatians. - -
q I will putit in the heart of ail thoſe Kings, whoſe Tertitories lie Northward of Judes, and particularly inte the Heart of Neby-" chadrezzar the King of Babylon, who in this Work ſhall beg my Ser= vant; though you will not be my Servants in obeying my Com- mands, yer he ſhall ſerve me, Chap. 27, 6: and 43. 10. r Twill bring
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' out ef hopes from your Alliances with other Nations, for he: ſhall
them and their Armies up againit this. people, and 1 will put you
firſt bring them under his Command, thus we read, 2 Kings 24, 7 that the King ef Babylon had invaded the. Egyptian Nominjons, and | taken from the River of Egypt, unto the River Euphbrates, all chat pars / ti i rained to the King of Egypt. { And I will make the Inhabiranrs of Je- 4 Heb, i | ruſalem, not only a deſolation, buy a ſcorn, and reproach, and won- .»;1} ak ft derment to the World. Vid. Ehap, 19.8. -- 1) 3 fi 5*1,) 26 ain 10 Moreover, I will f take from them the voice of from chem mirth,” and the voice of gladneſs, the voice of the * Chap. | bridegroom, and the voice of the bride :, the found of 7 3+. <* - ns £ . MRS : & 16, 9. «\ the milſtones, and the light of the candle «. : -. Fxek z I will rake away all your mirth and jollity, whether pſed 'at ; 3- +2: J Weddings, orat any of your merry Meetings « I will leave you Hof. a4 _
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nothing to rejoyce in 3 your very Wedding times, ſhall be times of ;;__ --* mourning -and . lamentation. # 'Nay I will not only' depriye.you Rey, 18. of your micth, bur of thoſe things which are neceſſary for Tou, as: 1 2. j
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thus he threatens to make the Chaldeans a perpetual deſolation-
a Viſion. c And bade him to carry it to the Nations to whom he ſent him, to ſignifie rothem that his Wrath ſhould be poured out on them, and they ſhould drink of it- |
| Nats wm. becauſe of the ſword that I will ſend among them 4.
ed, and be mad, and rage ike Men overcome with Wine, becauſe of thoſe dreadful Judgments which I ſhall ſend amongſt them.
made all the nations to drink, unts whom the LORD had
made'the Prophet to travel up and down to all the Nations afters ward named, with a Cup of 18 To wit Jeruſalem and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them 2 deſolation, an aſtoniſhment, an hiffing and a curſe, as it is this day f..
God People, therefore their ſins are higher provocations, and they are leſs excuſable. By che Kings here mentioned are to be underſtood Fehoiakim, Jehojakin, and Zedekiah, theſe Princes with their People, | God threatens to puniſh to aſtoniſhment,and ſo as Men ſhould mock | all thoſe Princes that have Dominions berween the North and Eaſt.
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neceſſary 2s Bread and Light, the Milſtote ſhall nor move, you
ſhall not have the light ſo much as of a Candle. See the Ike Ex- |
Mons, Rev. 18+ 22. 1. God here threatens not only to tak= away their Superfluities. and what he had hitherto lent them, tor their pleaſure and delight, but alſo what they had for their neceſlary ſuſtenance, and to capacitate them to do their ordinary Works. 1x And this whole land ſhall be a defolation, and an
aſtoniſhment, and theſe nations ſhall ſerve the king of
Babylon ſeventy years w.
w This Prophecy is a famous Propecy 1n regard of its fixing the particular ſpace of time in which the Jews abode in the Captivity of Babylon, wiz. ſeventy Years. When they determined we are plain- ly enough told, Ezrs 1. z. in the firſt Year of Cyrus the King of Perſia, but when they commenced is more diſputed 3 for we read of three carryings into that Captivity, the one in the third and fourth Year of Fehojachims when it ſhould ſeem that Nebuchadrez- zar, only carried away ſome few perſons to be bred in his Court, amongſt whom were Daniel and the Three Children, Dan. 1+ 1, 2, &c A ſecond ſeven Years after in *Jeconiah's time, 2 Kings 24. I5, 16. The laſt and moſt general eleven Years after, in the xi!th Year of Zedekiah, it ſeemeth moſt probable that the ſeventy Nears muſt be reckoned from the ſecond, for Jeremiah, Chap. 29. 1, 2, 3. Writ- ing to thoſe then in Captivity, tells them 3 That when ſeventy Years ſhould be accompliſh, God would bring them back. This is confirmed by Ezekiel. Chap. 40 1. Where the fourteenth Year after the taking of the City is expreſly ſaid to be the rwenty fifth Yearof their Captivity.
12 And it ſhall come to pais * when the ſeventy years are accompliſhed x, hat T will F puniſh the king of Babylon, and that nation, ſaith the LORD, for
pre
= a 1 4 BD. Chap. XXy.
ing what was in the beginning of this Chapter. Others think th;
he adds theſe words becauſe Carrying _—_ Captivity Sno 0% ; time begun, though not complicated untill the eleventh Year of ' Zedekinh.