2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. …
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, I. The court set, and both attendance and attention demanded: “ Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel , for to you is the word of this conviction sent, whether you will hear or whether you will forbear.” Whom may God expect to give him a fair hearing, and take from him a fair warning, but the children of Israel, his own professing people? Yea, they will be ready enough to hear…
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