Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam. Strong expressions are here used to indicate the utter extirpation of his house. "Him that is about up and left in Israel," means those who were concealed with the greatest privacy, as the heirs of royalty often are where polygamy prevails; the other phrase, from the loose garments of the East having led to a different practice from what prevails in the West, cannot refer to men: it must signify either a very young boy, or rather, perhaps, a dog-so entire would be the destruction of Jeroboam's house, that none, not even a dog, belonging to it should escape. This special phrase occurs only in regard to the threatened extermination of a family (1 Samuel 25:22-34. See the manner of extermination, 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:24).