38Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
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And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. …
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-38)After many terrible threatenings of deserved wrath and vengeance, we have here surprising intimations of mercy, undeserved mercy, which rejoices against judgment, and by which it appears that God has no pleasure in the death of sinners , but would rather they should turn and live . I. In jealousy for his own honour, he will not make a full end of them, Deut. 32:26-28. 1. It cannot be denied but th…
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