9And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)In the former part of the chapter we had these secure Israelites loading themselves with pleasures, as if they could never be made merry enough; here we have God loading them with punishments, as if they could never be made miserable enough. And observe, I. How strongly this burden is bound on, not to be shaken off by their presumption and security; for it is bound by the Lord the God of hosts , b…
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