I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Ver. 11. I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one.] Of Merodach Baladan, who of governor had made himself King of Babylon; and in the twelfth year of his reign, having overcome Esarhaddon, son to Sennacherib, and last monarch of Assyria, he adjoined that whole empire to the Babylonians, and reigned after that forty years. a
He shall surely deal with him.] Heb., In doing he shall do unto him; i.e., he shall do what he list with him; b as Tamerlane since did with Bajazet, whom he carried about in an iron cage, using him on festival days for a footstool, and feeding him like a dog with crumbs fallen from his table. All which Tamerlane did, not so much for hatred to the man, saith the historian, c as to manifest the just judgment of God against the arrogant folly of the proud.
a Metashenes, Josephus, lib. i. cap. 2.
b Pro libitu tractabo. - Piscat.
c Turkish History, 220.