* I will stretch.
This metaphor is taken from the custom of using a line in
measuring land, and in dividing portions of it among several
persons. Samaria was taken, pillaged, and ruined, and its
inhabitants carried into captivity: Jerusalem shall have the
same measure.
# 17:6; Isa 10:22; 28:17; 34:11; La 2:8; Eze 23:31-34; Am 7:7,8|
# Zec 1:16|
* the plummet.
# 10:11; 1Ki 21:21-24|
* I will wipe.
I will empty Jerusalem of all its wealth and inhabitants, as
truly as a dish turned up and wiped is emptied of its
contents.
# 1Ki 14:10; Isa 14:23; Jer 25:9; Eze 24:10,11; Re 18:21-23|
* wiping it, and turning it upside down. Heb. he wipeth and
turneth it upon the face thereof.
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