11And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
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And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. …
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)The date of this sermon must be observed, in order to the right understanding of it; it was in the days of Josiah , who set on foot a blessed work of reformation, in which he was hearty, but the people were not sincere in their compliance with it; to reprove them for that, and warn them of the consequences of their hypocrisy, is the scope of that which God here said to the prophet, and which he de…
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