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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 King 21:13 - 21:13
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the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab - Captives doomed to destruction were sometimes grouped together and marked off by means of a measuring-line and plummet (2Sa 8:2; Isa 34:11; Amo 7:7); so that the line of Samaria means the line drawn for the destruction of Samaria; the plummet of the house of Ahab, for exterminating his apostate family; and the import of the threatening declaration here is that Judah would be utterly destroyed, as Samaria and the dynasty of Ahab had been.
I will wipe Jerusalem, etc. - The same doom is denounced more strongly in a figure unmistakably significant.