44All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
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Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-44)The method of proceeding in this matter being concluded on, and the congregation dismissed, that each in his respective place might gain and give intelligence to facilitate the matter, we are here told, 1. Who were the persons that undertook to manage the matter and bring the causes regularly before the commissioners— Jonathan and Jahaziah , two active men, whether of the priests or of the people…
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