9And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. …
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. …
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The prophet here, as prosecutor in God’s name, draws up an indictment against the Jews for wilful disobedience to the commands of their rightful Sovereign. For the more solemn management of this charge, I. He produces the commission he had to draw up the charge against them. He did not take pleasure in accusing the children of his people, but God commanded him to speak it to the men of Judah , Jer…
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