2 Kings 21:13
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
Note wiping…: Heb. he wipeth and turneth it upon the face thereof
I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plumb line of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- 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.
- 2 Kings 17:6; Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 34:11; Lamentations 2:8; Ezekiel 23:31–34; Amos 7:7, 8; Zechariah 1:16
- the plummet
- 2 Kings 10:11; 1 Kings 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.
- 1 Kings 14:10; Isaiah 14:23; Jeremiah 25:9; Ezekiel 24:10, 11; Revelation 18:21–23