14Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
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And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-19)The prophet, further to evince the folly of their forsaking God, shows them what mischiefs they had already brought upon themselves by so doing; it had already cost them dear, for to this were owing all the calamities their country was now groaning under, which were but an earnest of more and greater if they repented not. See how they smarted for their folly. I. Their neighbours, who were their pr…
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