* 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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