Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
stump—The kingdom is still reserved secure for him at last, as a tree stump secured by a hoop of brass and iron from being split by the sun's heat, in the hope of its growing again (Isaiah 11:1; compare Job 14:7-9). BARNES refers it to the chaining of the royal maniac.
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