Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

The nations

Bible References

The nations

2 Kings 24:1
In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

And spread

Ezekiel 19:4

‘The nations heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 12:13
I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
Ezekiel 17:20
I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare; and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment with him there for his treason which he has committed against Me.
Lamentations 4:20

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord [our king],
Was captured in their snares,
He of whom we had said, “Under his shadow
We shall live among the nations.”