10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. …
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)The Israelites are here again convicted and condemned, and particular notice given of the crimes they are convicted of and the punishment they are condemned to. 1. Notice is given of it to their neighbours. The prophet is ordered to publish it in the palaces of Ashdod , one of the chief cities of the Philistines; nay, the summons must go further, even to the palaces in the land of Egypt . “The gre…
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