2 Kings 14:13
captured ... Amaziah <08610 0558> [took Amaziah.]
Gate ... Ephraim ..... Gate <0669 08179> [the gate of Ephraim.]
Corner <06438> [the corner.]
2 Kings 18:22
trusting <0982> [We trust.]
high places <01116> [whose high places.]
2 Kings 21:13
destroy <05186> [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.
<04949> [the plummet.]
wipe ....... wipes <04229> [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.
wipe ....... wipes ..... both sides <04229 06440> [wiping it, and turning it upside down. Heb. he wipeth and turneth it upon the face thereof.]
