11And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
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For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Here, I. They are put in mind of the sins of their fathers and predecessors, for which God would now reckon with them. It was told them (Hos. 9:9) that they had corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah , and here (Hos. 10:9), O Israel! thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah . Not only the wickedness that was committed in that age is revived in this, and reacted, a copy from that original,…
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