23I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
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And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. …
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: …
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, …
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-26)The history of the struggle between the sins of Israel, by which they endeavoured to ruin themselves, and the mercies of God, by which he endeavoured to save them and make them happy, is here continued: and the instances of that struggle in these verses have reference to what passed between God and them in the wilderness, in which God honoured himself and they shamed themselves. The story of Israe…
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