Incompetent Government Removed In Judgment

1. Incompetency. "And I will give boys (as) their princes, and infants shall be ruling over them" (v. 4, Hebrew). Not merely inferior kings would rule over them, but without a king, inept rulers, incapable of "Solomonian" quality, would be of a more "Rehoboamian" hotheaded, reckless despotism. The mere shadow of a king, a boy, would rule, whose advisers would be mental and moral weaklings, the impudent, the imprudent, the effeminate, the cowardly! 1. Incompetency. "And I will give boys (as)...