8And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)By the civil message which the king sent to Jeremiah it appeared that both he and the people began to have a respect for him, which it would have been Jeremiah’s policy to make some advantage of for himself; but the reply which God obliges him to make is enough to crush the little respect they begin to have for him, and to exasperate them against him more than ever. Not only the predictions in the…
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