His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Ver. 14. And his confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle] Whatsoever he trusteth in about his house shall be pulled up by the roots, or grubbed up. Thus it befell Doeg, Psalms 52:7. And this disappointment, this broken confidence of his, shall bring him, or make him go, to the king of terrors; i.e. to death, that most terrible of terribles, as the philosopher calleth it (Aristot.). Or the devil (as R. Solomon interpreteth it), that black prince, Ephesians 6:12, to whom wicked men are brought by death, which to them is not only nature's slaughterman, but God's curse, and hell's purveyor. Hence Revelation 6:8, death haleth hell at the heels of it.