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Chinese NCV (Simplified)
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以 东 人 要 召 贵 胄 来 治 国 ; 那 里 却 无 一 个 , 首 领 也 都 归 於 无 有 。
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
call: Isaiah 3:6-8, Ecclesiastes 10:16, Ecclesiastes 10:17
nothing: Isaiah 41:24, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 13:2, 2 Corinthians 12:11
Reciprocal: Judges 10:18 - What man
Cross-References
Then he gave Rebekah gold and silver jewelry and clothes. He also gave expensive gifts to her brother and mother.
Jacob loved Rachel, so he said to Laban, "Let me marry your younger daughter Rachel. If you will, I will work seven years for you."
I worked like a slave for you for twenty years—the first fourteen to get your two daughters and the last six to earn your flocks. During that time you changed my pay ten times.
Then your men can marry our women, and our men can marry your women, and we will live in your land and become one people.
If you refuse to be circumcised, we will take Dinah and leave."
Three days later the men who were circumcised were still in pain. Two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi (Dinah's brothers), took their swords and made a surprise attack on the city, killing all the men there.
Jacob's sons came upon the dead bodies and stole everything that was in the city, to pay them back for what Shechem had done to their sister.
So the brothers took the flocks, herds, and donkeys, and everything in the city and in the fields.
They took every valuable thing the people owned, even their wives and children and everything in the houses.
Then David sent messengers to Saul's son Ish-Bosheth, saying, "Give me my wife Michal. She was promised to me, and I killed a hundred Philistines to get her."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there,.... They shall call them to take upon them the kingdom and government, and there shall be none to do it, or that will care to do it; or rather there will be no kingdom to take unto them. The words may be rendered either, "as for the nobles thereof, not there a kingdom shall they be called" p; or, "the nobles shall call"; or, "they shall call the nobles", and "there shall be no kingdom" q; the kingdom of the beast, as it is called, Revelation 16:10 shall be no more; and though the cardinals, who are like to nobles, may call for it, and expect it, or be called to it, yet to no purpose; this kingdom will not only be full of darkness, but utterly destroyed:
and all her princes shall be nothing; shall come to nothing; the above mentioned cardinals, who are clothed and live like princes, these shall be no more; the same with the merchants of the earth, which like the merchants of Tyre are princes, Revelation 18:3.
p חריה ואין שם מלוכה יקראו "nobiles ejus, et non ibi regnum vocabuntur", Forerius. q "Ingenuos ejus vocabunt, et non erit ibi regnum", Tigurine version.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom - A more correct rendering of this would be, ‘As to the nobles, they shall call them, but there shall be there no kingdom.’ The idea is, that the kingdom would be desolate; there would be no people to rule. Or, there will be no nobles there who shall survive the destruction, and who can undertake the government of the state. The idea is taken from a government or constitution where the monarch is chosen from the ranks of the nobility. Idumea was formerly governed, as we have seen (see the Introduction to the chapter), by dukes or princes; and it is probable that when it became a monarchy it was a part of the constitution that the sovereign should be chosen from their ranks. The idea here is, that none would be left who could be called to the throne; or if any were left, they would be unwilling to undertake the government of a country where all was disorder and confusion.
And all her princes shall be nothing - Long since Idumea has ceased to be a kingdom, and there are neither nobles nor princes there, nor are there any remains of an organized and independent government.