11And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
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Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-16)Nothing but mischief is to be expected when Jezebel enters into the story— that cursed woman , 2 Kgs. 9:34. I. Under pretence of comforting her afflicted husband, she feeds his pride and passion, and blows the coals of his corruptions. It became her to take notice of his grief and to enquire into the cause of it, 1 Kgs. 21:5. Those have forgotten both the duty and affection of the conjugal relatio…
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