Matthew Poole and continuators on Habakkuk 2:12
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Habakkuk2:12
12 Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood , and stablisheth a city by iniquity .
Whosoever he be that lays foundations in blood, is here threatned, and none so great as to keep off the wo, deserved, and menaced.
Heb. City.
In the guilt and with the cruelty of murthering the innocent, it is the worst cement which is tempered with blood of murther'd Men, Women, and Children.
Goeth about, or thinketh to stablish the foundations of a City.
Babylon in particular.
By force and fraud, by riches extorted from the just possessor.
Marginal references: Jer. 22.13. Ezek. 24.9. Nah. 3.1.; Heb. bloods.
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