18And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: …
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-22)We have here the starting of a matter perfectly new and surprising, which was the setting up of kingly government in Israel. Perhaps the thing had been often talked of among them by those that were given to change and affected that which looked great. But we do not find that it was ever till now publicly proposed and debated. Abimelech was little better than a titular king, though he is said to re…
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