Notes on Prophecy of Jeremias (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
15:12 Shall iron be allied, etc: Shall the iron, that is, the strength of Juda, stand against the stronger iron of the north, that is, of Babylon: or enter into an alliance upon equal footing with it? No certainly: but it must be broken by it.
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