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But Zedekiah rebelled; endeavoured to cast off the dominion of the conqueror Nebuchadnezzar, who had advanced him and obliged him.
Sending his ambassadors is called bending his roots toward the second eagle.
Egypt; an old bitter enemy, and an impotent and false friend.
That they might give him horses: beside the perjury, here was a cursed trusting to an arm of flesh, of which Isa_31:1.
Much people; Zedekiah had not men to set upon his hired horses; Egypt must help here too. How sottishly doth this unhappy Zedekiah act to run himself on the charge and hazard of a new war, in which, whoever is the gainer, he and his are sure to be the losers!
Shall he prosper? see Eze_17:9,10. Can it be likely vengeance should not overtake such ingratitude? Can perjury be the way for any man’s deliverance? Can such notorious sinning end in any thing but misery?