2And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
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All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings. …
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here, I. All orders and degrees of men are cited to appear and answer to such things as shall be laid to their charge (Hos. 5:1): Hear you this, O priests ! whether in holy orders (as those in Judah, and perhaps many in Israel too, for in the ten tribes there were divers cities of priests and Levites, who, it is probable, staid in their own lot after the revolt of the ten tribes and did so much of…
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