10I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. …
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-16)The first of these verses is the summary, or contents, of all the rest (Hos. 14:9), where we have, 1. All the blame of Israel’s ruin laid upon themselves: O Israel! thy perdition is thence ; it is of and from thyself; or, “ It has destroyed thee, O Israel ! that is, all that sin and folly of thine which thou art before charged with. As thy own wickedness has many a time corrected thee , so that ha…
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