18Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
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And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-21)We must take all these verses together, that we may have the parable and the explanation of it at one view before us, because they will illustrate one another. 1. The prophet is appointed to put forth a riddle to the house of Israel (Ezek. 17:2), not to puzzle them, as Samson’s riddle was put forth to the Philistines, not to hide the mind of God from them in obscurity, or to leave them in uncertai…
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