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Jeremiah 29:22

And because of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Curse. Ver. 18. The malediction which has befallen the Jews, "overtake thee. "(Worthington) Fire, in frying-pans, (see 2 Machabees vii. 5.) or cauldrons of boiling oil. This death shows that these were not the infamous judges who tempted Susanna, (Calmet) as the Jews quoted by (Haydock) St. Jerome, Salien, would infer from ver. 23., and Daniel xiii. 57. They were stoned to death by the people, ibid. lxii. (Calmet) Yet the king might order their dead bodies to be cut in two and burnt, to express his horror of their wicked conduct, Daniel xiii. 55, 59. (Haydock)

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