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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 19:7 - 19:7
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knew ... desolate palaces - that is, claimed as his own their palaces, which he then proceeded to “desolate.” The Hebrew, literally “widows”; hence widowed palaces (Isa 13:22). Vatablus (whom Fairbairn follows) explains it, “He knew (carnally) the widows of those whom he devoured” (Eze 19:6). But thus the metaphor and the literal reality would be blended: the lion being represented as knowing widows. The reality, however, often elsewhere thus breaks through the veil.
fullness thereof - all that it contained; its inhabitants.