6And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
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And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here is, I. The message which God sent by Moses to the children of Israel, signifying the continuance of the displeasure against them, and the bad terms they yet stood upon with God. This he must let them know for their further mortification. 1. He applies to them a mortifying name, by giving them their just character— a stiff-necked people , Exod. 33:3 , 5 . “Go,” says God to Moses, “go and tell…
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