Deuteronomium 32:25

25 Van buiten zal het zwaard beroven, en uit de binnenkameren de verschrikking; ook den jongeling, ook de jonge dochter, het zuigende kind met den grijzen man.

Deuteronomium 32:25 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword without
Either without the city, the sword of the Roman army besieging it, which destroyed all that came out or attempted to go in; or in the streets of the city, the sword of the seditious, which destroyed multitudes among themselves:

and terror within;
within the city, on account of the sword of the Romans, and the close siege they made of it; and on account of the famine and pestilence which raged in it, and the cruelty of the seditious persons among themselves; all these filled the people with horror and terror in their houses; and even in their bedchambers, as the word signifies, they were not free from terror; yea, from the temple, and inward parts, and chambers of that, which may be referred to, terror came, that being in the hands of the seditious; they sallied out from thence, and ravaged the city, and filled all places with the dread of them; and many, no doubt, through fear died, as well as by the sword and other judgments; which it is threatened

shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also],
with the man of gray hairs;
none of any age or sex were spared, even those unarmed; not the young man, for his strength and promising usefulness; nor the virgin for her beauty and comeliness; nor the suckling for its innocence and tenderness; nor the aged man through any reverence of his gray hairs, or on account of the infirmities of old age, but all would be destroyed; and never was such a carnage made at the siege of anyone city in the world before or since; no less than 1,100,000 persons perished in it, as Josephus relates ^F5.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 9. sect. 3.

Deuteronomium 32:25 In-Context

23 Ik zal kwaden over hen hopen; Mijn pijlen zal Ik op hen verschieten.

24 Uitgeteerd zullen zij zijn van honger, opgegeten van den karbonkel en bitter verderf; en Ik zal de tanden der beesten onder hen schikken, met vurig venijn van slangen des stofs.

25 Van buiten zal het zwaard beroven, en uit de binnenkameren de verschrikking; ook den jongeling, ook de jonge dochter, het zuigende kind met den grijzen man.

26 Ik zeide: In alle hoeken zoude Ik hen verstrooien; Ik zoude hun gedachtenis van onder de mensen doen ophouden;

27 Ten ware, dat Ik de toornigheid des vijands schroomde, dat niet hun tegenpartijen zich vreemd mochten houden; dat zij niet mochten zeggen: Onze hand is hoog geweest; de HEERE heeft dit alles niet gewrocht.