14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
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Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-19)In these verses we have, as before, I. The sins charged upon the people of Israel, for which God had a controversy with them, and they are, 1. Spiritual whoredom, or idolatry. They have in them a spirit of whoredoms , a strong inclination to that sin; the bent and bias of their hearts are that way; it is their own iniquity ; they are carried out towards it with an unaccountable violence, and this…
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