14They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
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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.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. …
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-14)In these verses is threatened, I. A general judgment of spiritual famine coming upon the whole land, a famine of the word of God , the failing of oracles and the scarcity of good preaching. This is spoken of as a thing at some distance: The days come , they will come hereafter, when another kind of darkness shall come upon that land of light. When Amos prophesied, and for a considerable time after…
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