7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. …
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here we find, I. God very gracious to Israel. They were a people for whom he had done more than for any people under heaven, and to whom he had given more, which they are here, I will not say upbraided with (for God gives, and upbraids not), but put in mind of, as an aggravation of their sin and an encouragement to repentance. 1. He had a kindness for them when they were young (Hos. 11:1): When Is…
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