Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 36:12

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 36:12 - 36:12

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 36:12 - 36:12

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36:1 - 36:1
36:2 - 36:2
36:3 - 36:3
36:4 - 36:4
36:5 - 36:5
36:6 - 36:6
36:7 - 36:7
36:8 - 36:8
36:9 - 36:9
36:10 - 36:10
36:11 - 36:11
36:12 - 36:12
36:13 - 36:13
36:15 - 36:15
36:16 - 36:16
36:19 - 36:19
36:20 - 36:20
36:21 - 36:21
36:22 - 36:22

Is it to thy master and thee that I am sent? Nay, it is to the men on the wall, to let them know (so far am I from wishing them not to hear, as you would wish), that unless they surrender, they shall be reduced to the direst extremities of famine in the siege (2Ch 32:11, explains the word here), namely, to eat their own excrements: or, connecting, “that they may eat,” etc., with “sit upon the wall”; who, as they hold the wall, are knowingly exposing themselves to the direst extremities [Maurer]. Isaiah, as a faithful historian, records the filthy and blasphemous language of the Assyrians to mark aright the true character of the attack on Jerusalem.