Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
Ver. 8. Then the nations set against him on every side.] Nebuchadnezzar, with the neighbour nations his auxiliaries.
They spread their net over him.] As they did also over the two last kings, though not here specified, Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, because they chose rather to run the hazard of ruin by rebellion, than to continue safely with slavery.
He was taken in their pit.] See Ezekiel 19:4, an ordinary way of taking lions, as Pliny telleth us. Leones maxime foveis capiuntur.