7Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
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For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. …
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. …
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-17)We have here the explanation of the foregoing similitude: This is Jerusalem . Thus it is usual in scripture language to give the name of the thing signified to the sign; as when Christ said, This is my body . The prophet’s head, which was to be shaved, signified Jerusalem, which by the judgments of God was now to be stripped of all its ornaments, to be emptied of all its inhabitants, and to be set…
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