Thou piercest with his spears the head of his hordes, which storm hither to beat me to powder, whose rejoicing is, as it were, to swallow the poor in secret | Each head person sprung from and belonging to the house of Israel's wicked foes; such as Jabin, whose city Hazor was "the head of all the kingdoms" of Canaan Jos 11:10; compare Jud 4:2, 3, 13 |
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In this case the present clause is merely a repetition of the preceding one | You crush the leader of the house of the wicked and strip him from foot to neck |
The general meaning is plain - the metaphorical house is destroyed from summit to base, the destruction beginning at the gable is carried on to the very foundations According to this view, "the neck" should mean the very lowest basis of the walls.
26The anointed of God is not the chosen, consecrated nation Schnur | In all the salvations wrought for them, God looked upon Christ the Anointed, and brought deliverances to pass by him |
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Prophecy, in speaking of the first, has in mind all the rest, and chiefly the chiefest and the end of all, the full salvation of His people through Jesus Christ our Lord | Selah: all which is to be heeded, and well minded |
This thought in connects the conclusion of the description of the judicial coming of God with what precedes.