Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 21:13

13 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 .

She shall have the same measure and lot, i. e. the same Judgments which Samaria had. The line is oft put for ones lot or portion, as Psal. 16. 6. 2 Cor. 10. 16. because mens portions or possessions used to be measured by Lines, Psal. 78. 55. Amos 7. 17. Or, it is a Metaphor from workmen who mark out by Lines what parts of the Building they would have thrown down, and what they would have stand. See Isa. 34. 11. Lam. 2. 8. Amos 7. 7, 8. Zech. 1. 16. Or, it is an allusion to that fact of David, who destroyed the Moabites by a measuring Line, 2 Sam. 8. 2.

As men do with a Dish that hath been used, first wholly empty it of all that is in it, then throughly cleanse and wipe it; and lastly, turn it upside down, that nothing may remain in it; so will I deal with Ierusalem, thoroughly empty and purge it from all its wicked Inhabitants, and that so as to cut off all hopes of restitution.

Marginal references: Isa. 34. 11.; Heb. over the House of Manasseh.; Heb he wipeth and turneth it upon the face thereof.