17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
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And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)Kings, though they are gods to us, are men to God, and shall die like men ; so it appears in these verses, where we have a sentence of death passed upon two kings who reigned successively in Jerusalem, two brothers, and both the ungracious sons of a very pious father. I. Here is the doom of Shallum, who doubtless is the same with Jehoahaz, for he is that son of Josiah king of Judah who reigned in…
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