9. mine hand--My power in vengeance.
not . . . in . . . assembly--rather, the "council"; "They shall not
occupy the honorable office of councillors in the senate of elders
after the return from Babylon"
(Ezr 2:1, 2).
neither . . . written in . . . Israel--They shall not even have a place
in the register kept of all citizens' names; they shall be
erased from it, just as the names of those who died in the year, or had
been deprived of citizenship for their crimes, were at the annual
revisal erased. Compare
Jer 17:13;
Lu 10:20;
Re 3:5,
as to those spiritually Israelites;
Joh 1:47,
and those not so. Literally fulfilled
(Ezr 2:59, 62;
compare
Ne 7:5;
Ps 69:28).
neither . . . enter . . . land--They shall not so much as be allowed
to come back at all to their country.
JFB.
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