33And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
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Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
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.
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. …
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-33)This last paragraph of this chapter should, of right, have been the first of the next chapter, for it begins a new story, which is there continued and concluded. Here is, I. The siege which the king of Syria laid to Samaria and the great distress which the city was reduced to thereby. The Syrians had soon forgotten the kindnesses they had lately received in Samaria, and very ungratefully, for augh…
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