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Hath found, i.e. hath taken, as this word is used, Pro_1:13, and oft elsewhere, the antecedent being put for the consequent, because what men find they commonly take to themselves.
The kingdoms of the idols; which worshipped their own proper idols, and vainly imagined that they could protect them from power. He calls the gods of the several nations, not excepting Jerusalem, idols, by way of contempt, because none of them could deliver their people out of his hands, as he brags, Isa_37:11,12, and because he judged them to be but petty gods, far inferior to the sun, which was the great god of the Assyrians.
Excel them, to wit, in reputation and strength; which blasphemy of his proceeded from his deep ignorance of the true God.