My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon [to] the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Ver. 13. My net also will I spread upon him.] Princes usually love hunting and fowling. Lo, the Chaldees shall hunt him and overcatch him.
And he shall be taken in my snare.] Snares are set secretly, catch suddenly, hold certainly. A stronghold the Hebrew word here used doth also signify. a
Yet shall he not see it.] For his eyes were put out at Riblah. 2Ki 25:7 And yet, behold, a greater blindness that befell him than this. Josephus b testifieth that Zedekiah not understanding these words of Ezekiel, and thinking them to be contrary to Jeremiah's words, he resolved to believe neither of them.
a Jun.
b Joseph. Ant., lib. vi. x., cap. 10.