Ratapan 5:12

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Mereka itu sudah menggantungkan segala penghulu pada kayu dan muka orang tua-tuapun tiada diindahkannya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Pemimpin-pemimpin digantung oleh tangan mereka, para tua-tua tidak dihormati.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Pemimpin-pemimpin digantung oleh tangan mereka, para tua-tua tidak dihormati.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lamentations 2:10, Lamentations 2:20, Lamentations 4:16, Isaiah 47:6, Jeremiah 39:6, Jeremiah 39:7, Jeremiah 52:10, Jeremiah 52:11, Jeremiah 52:25-27

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:32 - General Isaiah 3:2 - mighty Isaiah 24:2 - as with the people Lamentations 1:8 - all Lamentations 1:19 - my priests Lamentations 2:6 - the king Lamentations 4:2 - how Ezekiel 19:1 - the princes Zechariah 14:2 - the houses

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Princes are hanged up by their hand,.... According to some, as Aben Ezra observes, by the hand of the servants before mentioned; however, by the hand of the Chaldeans or Babylonians; see Jeremiah 52:10. Some understand it of their own hands, as if they laid violent hands upon themselves, not being able to bear the hardships and disgrace they were subjected to but I should rather think this is to be understood of hanging them, not by the neck, but by the hand, could any instance be given of such a kind of punishment so early used, and by this people; which has been in other nations, and in more modern times:

the faces of elders were not honoured; no reverence or respect were shown to elders in age or office, or on account of either; but were treated with rudeness and contempt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

After the princes had been put to death their bodies were hung up by the hand to expose them to public contumely. Old age, again, no more availed to shield men from shameful treatment than the high rank of the princes. Such treatment of conquered enemies was not uncommon in ancient warfare.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. Princes are hanged up by their hand — It is very probable that this was a species of punishment. They were suspended from hooks in the wall by their hands till they died through torture and exhaustion. The body of Saul was fastened to the wall of Bethshan, probably in the same way; but his head had already been taken off. They were hung in this way that they might be devoured by the fowls of the air. It was a custom with the Persians after they had slain, strangled, or beheaded their enemies, to hang their bodies upon poles, or empale them. In this way they treated Histiaeus of Miletum, and Leonidas of Lacedaemon. See Herodot. lib. vi. c. 30, lib. vii. c. 238.