17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
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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