8The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. …
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. …
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. …
The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-21)Here are terrible threatenings, which are directed primarily against Israel, the kingdom of the ten tribes, Ephraim and Samaria, the ruin of which is here foretold, with all the woeful confusions that were the prefaces to that ruin, all which came to pass within a few years after; but they look further, to all the enemies of the throne and kingdom of Christ the Son of David, and read the doom of a…
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