Verse 5
5. Stout-hearted are spoiled Instead of making plunder of God’s people they themselves are become a spoil.
Slept their sleep Their perpetual sleep, the sleep of death. Jeremiah 51:39-57.
None… have found their hands They found not “their hands” in the sense of discovering, bringing back to light, a lost object, though the least degree of self-consciousness would have sufficed for this; nor yet in the sense to have power over, as the word may signify. 1 Samuel 23:17; Psalms 21:9. These mighty men, whose name had been the terror of the nations, now had neither consciousness to discover, nor ability to use, their hands. The words are in contrast with their boasted strength and skill.
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