3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, …
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Some take away the last words of the foregoing chapter, and make them the beginning of this: “ When I returned , or would have returned, the captivity of my people , when I was about to come towards them in ways of mercy, even when I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim (the country and common people) was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria , the court and the chief city.”…
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