3They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
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And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here, I. The people of Israel are charged with spiritual adultery: O Israel! thou hast gone a whoring from thy God , Hos. 9:1. Their covenant with God was a marriage-covenant, by which they were joined to him as their God, renouncing all others. But when they set up idols and worshipped them, when they fled to creatures for succour and put a confidence in them, they went a whoring from God as thei…
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