He, Jehoiakim, knew their desolate palaces, on view; not only heard of them, but setting on them violently, and taking them, he came to know their palaces, which are here called, what he made them, desolate; so the word Isaiah 13:22. Palaces; or it may be rendered widows, and then it will refer to such whose husbands this lion devoured, and thereby occasioned their petitioning to him, and thus he knew them, whom he made desolate; but the former best suits what follows. Laid waste their cities; pilling, polling, and by exactions driving the inhabitants out by his cruelty and tyranny. The land was desolate; the whole land, or the country, sped as ill as the cities, and so it was emptied of men, riches, and strength. By the noise of his roaring; by the perpetual violent threats of this cruel king, which are called his roaring, and so Proverbs 19:12, which terrified his neighbours in the three years revolt which are mentioned 2 Kings 24:1,2.
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Ezekiel 19:7
7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.