7Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
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For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. …
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. …
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The first words of the chapter are the contents of these verses; but they sound very strangely, and contrary to the sentiments of a vain world: Woe to those that are at ease ! We are ready to say, Happy are those that are at ease , that neither feel any trouble nor fear any, that lie soft and warm, and lay nothing to heart; and wise we think are those that do so, that bathe themselves in the delig…
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