9But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
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If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. …
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)How delightful were our meditations on the last reign! How many pleasing views had we of Sion in its glory (that is, in its purity and in its triumphs), of the king in his beauty! (for Isa. 33:17 refers to Hezekiah), and (as it follows there, 2 Kgs. 21:20) Jerusalem was a quiet habitation because a city of righteousness , Isa. 1:26. But now we have melancholy work upon our hands, unpleasant ground…
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