13Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. …
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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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