11Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
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And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; …
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)This sermon was preached two months after that in the former part of the chapter. The priests and Levites preached constantly, but the prophets preached occasionally; both were good and needful. We have need to be taught our duty in season and out of season . The people were now going on vigorously with the building of the temple, and in hopes shortly to have it ready for their use and to be emplo…
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