12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
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Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. …
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-15)Here, I. God calls to them (but calls in vain) to hear his word, Isa. 1:10. 1. The title he gives them is very strange; You rulers of Sodom , and people of Gomorrah . This intimates what a righteous thing it would have been with God to make them like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of ruin (Isa. 1:9), because that had made themselves like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of sin. The men of Sodom were w…
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