2 Kgs 21:13

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I will stretch.

This metaphor is taken from the custom of using a line in measuring land, and in dividing portions of it among several persons.

Samaria was taken, pillaged, and ruined, and its inhabitants carried into captivity: Jerusalem shall have the same measure.

2Kgs 17:6; Isa 10:22; Isa 28:17; Isa 34:11; Lam 2:8; Ezek 23:31-34; Amos 7:7; Amos 7:8 Zec 1:16

the plummet.

2Kgs 10:11; 1Kgs 21:21-24

I will wipe.I will empty Jerusalem of all its wealth and inhabitants, as truly as a dish turned up and wiped is emptied of its contents.

1Kgs 14:10; Isa 14:23; Jer 25:9; Ezek 24:10; Ezek 24:11; Rev 18:21-23

wiping it, and turning it upside down. Heb. he wipeth andturneth it upon the face thereof.