Isaiah Chapter 34 verse 12 Holy Bible
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
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The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.
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Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought.
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They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
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They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
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`To' the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - They shall call the nobles, etc.; rather, as for her nobles, there shall be none there for them to call to the kingdom. The nobles are termed horim, probably because the right of succession to the kingdom was vested in the descendants of the Horites, from whom the Edomites took their territory (Genesis 36:20, 29, 30). These having died out, there would be no one to appoint as king.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) They shall call the nobles thereof . . .--The monarchy of Edom seems to have been elective, its rulers being known, not as kings, but by the title which the English version renders by "dukes" (Genesis 36:15-43). It will be noticed that no chief in the list of dukes is the son of his predecessor. Isaiah fore tells as part of the utter collapse of Edom that there shall be neither electors nor any to elect.