24With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)After the comfortable promises made to Ahaz as a branch of the house of David, here follow terrible threatenings against him, as a degenerate branch of that house; for though the loving-kindness of God shall not be utterly taken away, for the sake of David and the covenant made with him, yet his iniquity shall be chastened with the rod , and his sin with stripes. Let those that will not mix faith…
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