14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: …
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)Here is, I. A loud alarm sounded, giving notice of judgments coming (Hos. 5:8): Blow you the cornet in Gibeah and in Ramah , two cities near together in the confines of the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel, Gibeah a frontier-town of the kingdom of Judah, Ramah of Israel; so that the warning is hereby sent into both kingdoms. “ Cry aloud at Beth-aven , or Bethel, which place seems to be already sei…
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