4And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
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Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)God had often spoken to Ezekiel, and by him to the people, to this effect, but now his word comes again ; for God speaks the same thing once, yea, twice , yea, many a time, and all little enough, and too little, for man perceives it not . Note, To convince sinners of the evil of sin, and of their misery and danger by reason of it, there is need of line upon line , so loth we are to know the worst…
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