27. shall fall by the sword —The very object of their confidence would be the instrument of their destruction. Thinking to "stand" by it, by it they shall "fall." Just retribution! Some fell by the sword of Ishmael; others by the Chaldeans in revenge for the murder of Gedaliah ( Jeremiah 40:1-44 ). caves — ( Judges 6:2 ; 1 Samuel 13:6 ). In the hilly parts of Judea there were caves almost inaccessible, as having only crooked and extremely narrow paths of ascent, with rock in front stretching down into the valleys beneath perpendicularly [JOSEPHUS, Wars of the Jews, 1.16.4]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-28" class="com-number"
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