5That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. …
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here is, I. The address which some of the elders of Israel made to the prophet, as an oracle, to enquire of the Lord by him. They came, and sat before him , Ezek. 14:1. It is probable that they were not of those who were now his fellow-captives, and constantly attended his ministry (such as those we read of Ezek. 8:1), but some occasional hearers, some of the grandees of Jerusalem who had come upo…
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