10In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. …
And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)In these verses the prophet by a commission from Heaven sits as a judge upon the bench, and Jerusalem is made to hold up her hand as a prisoner at the bar; and, if prophets were set over other nations, much more over God’s nation, Jer. 1:10. This prophet is authorized to judge the bloody city , the city of bloods . Jerusalem is so called, not only because she had been guilty of the particular sin…
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