15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. …
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. …
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
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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