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1 | why did the assyrians hate israel. | 2 Kin 19:35 | buffy1 | 218679 | ||
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2 | why did the assyrians hate israel. | 2 Kin 19:35 | DocTrinsograce | 218680 | ||
Hi, buffy... Isaiah 52:4 says that their oppression of Israel was without cause. John Calvin comments: There was much greater plausibility in Pharaoh’s claim of dominion over the Jews than in that of the Babylonians; for Jacob, having voluntarily come down to Egypt with his family, (Gen_46:5,) undoubtedly became subject to the power of Pharaoh, who, in return for the kindness received from Joseph, had assigned to him a large country and abundant pasturage. Pharaoh’s successors, ungrateful and forgetful of the benefit conferred on them by Joseph, afflicted all the posterity of Jacob in various ways. This ingratitude and cruelty the Lord severely punished. But far more base and savage was the wickedness of the Babylonians, who drove the Jews out of a lawful possession, and dragged them into bondage. If then the Lord could not bear the Egyptians, who were unthankful and ruled by unjust laws, though in other respects they had a just title to possession, much less will he endure the violent and cruel Babylonians, who have no right to govern his people and oppress them by tyranny. By “the Assyrian,” he means the Babylonians, who were united under the same monarchy with the Assyrians; but he takes special notice of “the Assyrian,” because he was the first that grievously distressed the Jews, and that prepared the way for this captivity. |
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