6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
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Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. …
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. …
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
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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