4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
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That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; …
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)It was the complaint of the Jews in Babylon that they saw not their signs , and there was no more prophet (Ps. 74:9), which was a just judgment upon them for mocking and misusing the prophets. We read of no prophets they had in their return, as they had in their coming out of Egypt, Hos. 12:13. God stirred them up immediately by his Spirit to exert themselves in that escape (Ezra 1:5); for, though…
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