And they shall fall by the edge of the sword
Or "mouth of the sword", an Hebraism; see the Septuagint in (
Judges 1:8
Judges 1:25 )
. The number of those that perished by the famine and sword, were
eleven hundred thousand F6:
and shall be led away captive unto all nations;
when the city was taken, the most beautiful of the young men were
kept for the triumph; and those that were above seventeen years
of age, were sent bound into Egypt, to labour in the mines; many
were distributed through the provinces, to be destroyed in the
theatres, by the sword or beasts; and those that were under
seventeen years of age, were led captive to be sold; and the
number of these only, were ninety-seven thousand F7:
and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the
Gentiles;
the Romans, who ploughed up the city and temple, and laid them
level with the ground; and which spot has been ever since
inhabited by such as were not Jews, as Turks and Papists: and so
it will be,
until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled;
that is, till the fulness of the Gentiles is brought in; until
the Gospel is preached all over the world, and all God's elect
are gathered in out of all nations; and then the Jews will be
converted, and return to their own land, and rebuild and inhabit
Jerusalem; but till that time, it will be as it has been, and
still is possessed by Gentiles. The word "Gentiles", is left out
in one of Beza's exemplars, and so it is likewise in the Persic
version.