8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
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For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. …
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-8)We may observe here, 1. The plentiful provision God had made for Israel and the seasonable supplies he had blessed them with (Hos. 14:5): “ I did know thee in the wilderness , took cognizance of thy case and made provision for thee, even in a land of great drought , when thou wast in extreme distress, and when no relief was to be had in an ordinary way.” See a description of this wilderness, Deut.…
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